[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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