[B-Greek] Heb 6,5

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon May 3 17:09:46 EDT 2004


At 7:55 AM -0700 5/3/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>KAI KALON GEUSAMENOUS QEOU hRHMA DUNAMEIS TE MELLONTOS
>AIWNOS,
>
>Can the expression KALON...QEOU hRHMA be in the
>attributive or predicate position? Or, structurally,
>is it one or the other?

Inasmuch as there is no article, one cannot say for sure whether KALON is
attributive or predicative to QEOU hRHMA, but my guess would be that KALON
is attributive here: "having tasted the good word of god and the miracles
of the age to come ..." -- and yet I can see how one might understand this
phrase with KALON as predicative, "having tasted the word of God (so as to
see that it is) good and the miraculous happenings of the age to come as
well (to see that they are good) ... In that case, KALON would be
understood also with DUNAMEIS, even though it agrees properly speaking only
with hRHMA.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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