[B-Greek] 2 Thes 2:3a

cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jul 22 08:07:28 EDT 2004


At 7:21 PM -0700 7/21/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>MH TIS hUMAS EXAPATHSHi KATA MHDENA TROPON; hOTI EAN
>MH ELQHi hH APOSTASIA PRWTON KAI APOKALUFQHi...
>
>NET Bible has...
>2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day
>will not arrive until the rebellion comes6 and the man
>of lawlessness is revealed,
>
>Footnote 6
>tn Grk "for unless the rebellion comes first." The
>clause about "the day" is understood from v. 2. 
>
>What is the grammatical principle that accounts for
>the NET translators not Englishing "first" (PRWTON) in
>their translation? 

There's no grammatical principle of GREEK accounting for "omission" of PRWTON:
the NET formulation is simply stating the content of the Greek statement in more
normal English idiom. 

>What would be the temporal relationship between the
>rebellion coming and the man of lawlessness being
>revealed? Are they both one and the same thing?

I think that Arie has already given an adequate answer on the second question;
it's not a matter of identity of the two events (coming of the rebellion,
revelation of of the man of lawlessness); rather these items, whether or not one
asssumes that they are related, are both events that must take place BEFORE the
arrival of 'that day.'

Carl W. Conrad
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