[B-Greek] Romans 12:2

A. Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Fri Feb 11 11:56:34 EST 2005


After being for some time in Spain without internet (very interesting !) I
am happy to join the discussions on this list again (very interesting too
! - "There is a time to ....", would Solomon say).

I agree with George.
Grammatically I see no reason why TO AGAQON KAI EUARESTON KAI TELEION cannot
be adjectives directly modifying TO QELHMA TOU QEOU. But grammatically it
can also be seen as an explaining apposition to TO QELHMA TOU QEOU, to be
rendered with "i.e.".
As to the sense the will of God *can* be called AGAQON, EUARESTON and
TELEION. But verse 1 said that our lifes should be a QUSIAN ZWSAN hAGIAN
*EUARESTON*. So it is not natural to connect EUARESTON with TO QELHMA TOU
QEOU, and that also because AGAQON, EUARESTON and TELEION are words that are
connected with the sacrifices of the OT. So the words belong to our lifes
and so it is more natural to see them as the thing to be found out by us and
so George is right. But the decision cannot be made looking to grammatical
possibilities only.

Arie


A. Dirkzwager
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "N.E.Barry Hofstetter" <nebarry at verizon.net>
Aan: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel at juno.com>
CC: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: vrijdag 11 februari 2005 17:27
Onderwerp: Re: Re: [B-Greek] Romans 12:2


>
> >
> > 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
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