[B-Greek] Ephesians 2:20 - What kind of Genitive construction?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Feb 8 05:32:47 EST 2005
At 3:21 AM +0000 2/8/05, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:
>I think Wallace is refering to TWi QEMELIWi to be in apposition to
>APOSTOLWN KAI PROFHTWN.
>
>So on pg 100 of his grammer, I think he is saying that the foundation
>which is the apostles and prophets.
>
>I don't think he is refering to OVTOS AKROGWNIAIOU AUTOU at all.
That may be what he thinks, but the otherwise superfluous
genitiveparticiple ONTOS and the intensive pronoun AUTOU still lead me to
think that the construction is a genitive absolute.
>> I probably have not given this enough consideration myself but I'd still
>> appreciate the comments the list might have on the Genitive construction in
>> Ephesians 2:20. I always considered ONTOS AKROGWNIAIOU AUTOU IHSOU CRISTOU a
>> Genitive Absolute, "a noun and pronoun in the Genitive with a Genitive
>> participle" (Machen #266). I see a straight forward translation as,
>>"being (the)
>> extreme corner Himself Jesus Christ".
>>
>> If I'm not misunderstanding, Wallace seems to see this construction as a
>> Genitive of Apposition. I guess I'm not seeing #1 which construction it
>>is and
>> #2 what the difference is. In situations like this do theological
>> presuppositions play more of a part in ones' translation? Anyway, it
>>seems to me
>> that if I can't determine the grammar how can I be sure what the
>>translation is,
>> even though it seems straight forward in this case?
>>
>> Ephesians 2:20
>> EPOIKODOMHQENTES EPI TW QEMELIW TWN APOSTOLWN KAI PROFHTWN ONTOS
>>AKROGWNIAIOU
>> AUTOU IHSOU CRISTOU
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> rod rogers
>> bargersville, in
>>
>> Ps. Sorry for the previous post.
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