[B-Greek] Ephesians 2:20 - What kind of Genitive construction?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Feb 8 14:41:34 EST 2005


At 1:36 PM -0500 2/8/05, Rod Rogers wrote:
>Unless I'm wrong again, Wallace was not referring to the Genitive Absolute
>construction at all (the corner stone or Christ or Him "being" something).
>He was only referring to APOSTOLWN KAI PROFHTWN being in apposition to TWi
>QEMELIWi, apostles and prophets further describing the foundation (I think).
>I misunderstood Wallace to make a reference to AUTOU IHSOU CRISTOU  as being
>in apposition to something which I could not figure out because, like you
>say it is a part of a Genitive Absolute construction which should be
>independent of the main clause.
>
>EPOIKODOMHQENTES EPI TW QEMELIW TWN APOSTOLWN KAI PROFHTWN ONTOS
>AKROGWNIAIOU AUTOU IHSOU CRISTOU

Yes, that's better; one can (as Wallace does) make an argument for TWN
APOSTOLWN KAI PROFHTWN being "appositional" to TWi QEMELIWi, although,
inasmuch as it's a simple adnominal genitive, one could just as easily
understand it to be "the foundation (laid down by--and so belonging to) the
apostles and prophets.
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Carl W. Conrad
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