[B-Greek] Gal 2.4: ellipsis or anacoluthon?
Steven Lo Vullo
themelios at charter.net
Sun Nov 28 15:46:14 EST 2004
Hi all:
Gal 2.3-5 reads as follows:
3 ALL' OUDE TITOS hO SUN EMOI, hELLHN WN, HNAGKASQH PERITMHQHNAI; 4 DIA
DE TOUS PAREISAKTOUS YEUDADELFOUS, hOITINES PAREISHLQON KATASKOPHSAI
THN ELEUQERIAN hHMWN hHN ECOMEN EN CRISTWi IHSOU, hINA hHMAS
KATADOULWSOUSIN, 5 hOIS OUDE PROS hWRAN EIXAMEN THi hUPOTAGHi, hINA hH
ALHQEIA TOU EUAGGELIOU DIAMEINHi PROS hUMAS.
My initial inclination was to take the first clause of v. 4 as
elliptical, with an understood TOUTO EGENETO or something similar. This
understanding is reflected in translations such as that of the NET
Bible:
"Now **this matter arose** because of the false brothers with false
pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have
in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves."
However, other translations seem to be based on an understanding that
there is a syntactical incoherence here. Note, e.g., the NRSV:
"4 But because of false believers secretly brought in, who slipped in
to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might
enslave us--5 we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the
truth of the gospel might always remain with you."
Then there is this in the ESV:
"4 Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in--who slipped in to
spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might
bring us into slavery--5 to them we did not yield in submission even
for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for
you."
So which seems more probable in the Greek, elliptical or anacoluthic?
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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