[B-Greek] Hebrews 1.8

Ron Fay roncfay at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 9 19:43:05 EDT 2004


>Linguistic:
>1. preponderance of use of hO QEOS as a nominative, rather than as a 
>vocative;

Statistics is generally irrelevent to a single use. That is introductory 
statistics. All statistics can show is trends, and trends do not in fact 
move a single point of data.

>2. lack of parallel to using EIS TON AIWNA as an absolute predicate phrase;
>preponderance of its use as modifier of other elements within the 
>predicate;

You rightly hedge this yourself.

>3. the existence of an alternative way to convey the vocative if it is
>intended.

Irrelevent. hO KURIOS is often used as a vocative even when KURIE has been 
used in the same book (see Matthew's Gospel).

>Literary:
>1. literary context in Hebrews fails to supply another reference to Jesus 
>as
>"God"; functionality of the verse in its context without taking hO QEOS as 
>a
>vocative;

Debatable at best.

>2. literary context of original passage in Psalm 45 shows that God is not
>being addressed; rather a king is being praised by cataloguing the 
>attributes
>of his life in the palace.

The Psalm is using typology such that the "king" (probable Messianic 
allusion) is seen as a shadow or extension of God, if you will forgive the 
clumsy wording on my part.

- Ron
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Ron Fay
Ph. D. student and New Testament Fellow
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Deerfield, IL.
roncfay at hotmail.com

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