[B-Greek] TA PAQHMATA... TA... ENHRGEITO EN TOIV MELESIN HMWN
Dean Kalmantis
deankal at hol.gr
Fri Aug 27 19:20:56 EDT 2004
Hello,
I am having some trouble with the following text from Ro 7:5:
TA PAQHMATA TWN AMARTIWN TA DIA TOU NOMOU ENHRGEITO EN TOIV MELESIN
HMWN EIS TO KARPOFORHSAI TW QANATW
English translations usually render this as: THE PASSIONS OF SIN WERE
WORKING IN OUR MEMBERS THROUGH THE LAW FOR THE BEARING OF FRUIT UNTO
DEATH.
If sinful passions caused the KARPOFORIA, shouldn’t “working”
(ENHRGEITO) be active? Wouldn’t it be better to have said TA PAQHMATA
TWN AMARTIWN TA DIA TOU NOMOU ENHRGOUN EN TOIV MELESIN HMWN EIS TO
KARPOFORHSAI TW QANATW?
Or perhaps is there another way to understand this verse?
Dean Kalmantis
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