[B-Greek] Ephesians 4:11 MEV...DE construction

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Wed Apr 20 17:09:10 EDT 2005



Mildred wrote:

>In 4:11 the construction MEV...DE is used to
>distinguish differing calls on people God has chosen. 
>I am used to this construction being translated on one
>hand...On the other hand.  How can this be resolved? 
>  
>

You could try something like "to the one person... and to the other 
person"  or "to some people.... to other people".  men... de is a fairly 
normal construction.  Blass- Debrunner calls it a correlative use.  The 
words framed by men... de are correlated.
Best

Jim

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