[B-Greek] Phil 2:11 Revisited

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Mon Jan 12 13:59:07 EST 2004


PLEISTA CAIREIN

Phil. 2:11 - KAI PASA GLWSSA EXOMOLOGHSHTAI hOTI KURIOS IHSOUS CRISTOS
EIS DOXAN QEOU PATROS.

Some time ago I suggested on this list that the words KURIOS IHSOUS
CRISTOS might be taken as an exclamation of praise "Lord Jesus Christ!"
rather than a nominal sentence, "Jesus Christ is Lord." Carl Conrad
responded to me off-list with basically two arguments:

1) The words KURIOS IHSOUS CRISTOS are a creedal formularization in
origin and since creeds do not normally contain exclamatory expressions
the words in question ought to be taken as a nominal sentence, "Jesus
Christ is Lord."

2) The verb EXOMOLOGEISQAI means "to admit the truth of a statement." And
so what follows in the hOTI clause is very likely to be a nominal
sentence, i.e., the statement of truth so admitted.

Although I am not wholly convinced by these arguments, I am beginning to
come around to this point of view.

What I would like to know from the members of this list is this:
Where in the GNT and the LXX do we find nominal sentences similar to
KURIOS IHSOUS CRISTOS that meet the following restrictions:

1) They must NOT contain:
        definite articles
        copula
        pronouns
        adjectives
        participles

2) They may contain:
        proper nouns
        titles
        common nouns

I am not aware of any nominal sentences which meet the above criteria in
the GNT. I don't know about the LXX. I have Bibleworks, but I don't know
how to set up the search.

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA



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