[B-Greek] Eph. 6:1 EN KURIW

dhoxworth at charter.net dhoxworth at charter.net
Wed Feb 11 11:16:45 EST 2004


carl can probably elaborate on this a lot more and articulate it much better, but i think it is recommended to translate prepositional phrases adverbally if possible (i think prepositions were initially adverbs that stood alone) and then explore other possibities (adjectivally, etc.). i think the customary word order for non-copulative clauses is something like (though i don't know that this includes imperative clauses):

Verb -> Sub -> Object -> IO -> Prep. Phrase

i personally think the traditional translations are fine making it, "children obey your parents in the Lord (i.e., obey in the Lord), for this is right"

> 
> From: Ted Shoemaker <tedsmath at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 03:48:20 GMT
> To: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Eph. 6:1 EN KURIW
> 
>  
> Ephesians 6:1 reads:
> TA TEKNA hUPOKOUETE TOIS GONEUSIN hUMWN EN KURIW TOUTO GAR ESTI
> DIKAION
> 
> What linguistic clues do we have, to help us figure out what EN KURIW
> modifies?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Ted Shoemaker
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> 
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