[B-Greek] 1 Cor 14:16 and NET Bible's translation

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 17 22:16:28 EDT 2004


EPEI EAN EULOGHiS [EN] PNEUMATI, hO ANAPLHRWN TON
TOPON TOU IDIWTOU PWS EREI TO AMHN EPI THi SHi
EUCARISTIAi EPEIDH TI LEGEIS OUK OIDEN

The NET Bible translation has:

Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit,
how can someone without the gift3 say "Amen" to your
thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are
saying?

Footnote 3 reads:

3 tn Grk "how can someone who fills the place of the
unlearned say 'Amen.'"

Can someone share with me how the "how can someone
without the gift" comes from hO ANAPLHRWN TON TOPON
TOU IDIWTOU PWS ?

What specifically are the grammatical and syntactical
(and perhaps even lexical) considerations that permit
this translation? Please understand I am not
challenging the translators. I am only trying to
understand this translation, because it almost looks
like a "paraphrase" of some kind or another.
Commentaries I have referenced (admittedly not many
though) had a hard time with TOU IDIWTOU, so I suspect
the "without the gift" must relate to this some how.


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Mitch Larramore
Spring Branch, Texas
Student/Memorial High School


		
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