[B-Greek] "event words"? (Rom 5:2)

Stephen Cooper stephen.cooper at email.fandm.edu
Mon Aug 29 08:43:15 EDT 2005


At 7:52 PM -0700 8/28/05, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>omans 5:2 ends...
>
>KAI KAUCWMEQA EP’ ELPIDI THS DOXHS TOU QEOU
>
>One commentary I've consulted indicates that DOXHS is
>an "event word," and that the relationship it has with
>ELPIDI needs to be expressed. He suggests: we boast in
>the hope that God will reveal his glory.
>
>The NIV has "we boast in our hope of SHARING the glory
>of God."
>
>What kind of words semantically are "event words"? I
>had previously reserved event words for verbal nouns.
>I'm not so sure I would have figured out that DOXH is
>an "event" just by its relation to ELPIS. Are they any
>helpful guidelines for when to look for "events" in
>nouns, and are there certain constructs that lend to
>that usage?
>
>
>
>Eddie Mishoe
>Pastor

Call me simple-minded for recourse to the old categories of 
descriptive grammar :) but isn't ELPIDI THS DOXHS TOU QEOU just an 
objective genitive?  The object of our hope, according to the 
apostle, is [attaining] "the glory of God".  The Vetus Latina (in 
Ambrosiaster) certainly takes it that way: in spe gloriae dei.

>The NIV quoted above by Eddie ("we boast in our hope of SHARING the glory
of God.") strikes me a unnecessarily expansive (and interpretive).



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