[B-Greek] Rom 1,17 prep phrase

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Jun 12 20:37:34 EDT 2004


At 5:02 PM -0700 6/12/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>hO DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS ZHSETAI
>
>I think one can legitimately see two (2) temporal
>spheres here. First, one has already gone from being
>unjust to just, and perhaps this change has come EK
>PISTEWS. The second temporal sphere follows this
>change and describes what happens or should happen as
>a result, namely, ZHSETAI, and perhaps this "living"
>should be characterized EK PISTEWS. I was wondering if
>others might share how they go about deciding which
>clause (nominal or verbal, here) to align EK PISTEWS with.

This has been discussed many times in the past in this forum; inasmuch as
the text is cited directly from Hab 2:4, one has to wonder whether Paul is
taking it directly from the LXX or is citing it from memory; in the LXX it
reads hO DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS MOU ZHSETAI, " .... but the righteous man
will live from MY faithfulness" (God speaking). The (more-or-less)
consensus view of the sense in Rom 1:17 is that EK PISTEWS construes with
DIKAIOS; I've personally preferred to construe it with ZHSETAI;
some,however, have argued that it should be construed APO KOINOU--both with
DIKAIOS and with ZHSETAI. It seems likely, in any case, that Paul is
understanding the text in a somewhat different sense from that which this
text has in its original OT context.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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