[B-Greek] Rom 1.17

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Tue Apr 26 18:09:09 EDT 2005


On Apr 26, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Tanya Hanshew wrote:

> 	To what or whom does EN AUTW  refer in verse seventeen?
> Grammatically speaking, the closest antecedent which agrees appears to 
> be
> PANTI TW PISTEUONTI though most translations and commentators take it 
> as
> referring to TO EUAGGELION. Is this due to the accusative attracting 
> the
> dative case or is there another answer?

Tanya, the personal pronoun must agree with its antecedent in gender 
and number, but not necessarily in case. Its case will be determined by 
its function in its own clause. In this example, AUTWi is the object of 
the preposition EN, which only takes the dative case. The question is 
whether AUTWi is masculine or neuter, since it may be either. In the 
context it seems much more likely, IMO, to understand it as neuter and 
take TO EUAGGELION as its antecedent. The only other choices are the 
masculine singular TWi PISTEUONTI or IOUDAIWi. Neither seem to me to 
make very good sense in the context. HTH.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
MAR student
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School




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