[B-Greek] Romans 12:2

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Fri Feb 11 11:38:32 EST 2005


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:27:41 -0500 N.E. Barry Hofstetter
<nebarry at verizon.net> writes:
> 
> > 
> > From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at juno.com>
> > Date: 2005/02/11 Fri AM 10:42:42 EST
> > To: jcfincher at charter.net
> > CC: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Romans 12:2
> > 
> > You might, however, question whether it functions simply as a 
> modifier of
> > QELHMA or whether it is a substantivization of the adjectives as 
> in
> > Plato's "the good, the true, and the beautiful."
> 
> Possible, but I'm not sure that it makes the best sense out of the 
> passage here.  Certainly grammatically allowable, though.  
> 
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> Adjunct Faculty, CUTS
> http://www.cuts.edu
> bhofstetter at cuts.edu
________________

See the RSV  and NRSV where TO AGAQON KAI hEURESTON KAI TELEION are taken
as an appositives to TO QELHMA.

george
gfsomsel
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