[B-Greek] 1 Peter 1:15

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Sun Jan 9 17:01:41 EST 2005


On Jan 9, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Charles Rempel wrote:

> GENHQHTE
>
> Matthew 26:42 He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "My
> Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done."
>
> GENHQHTO TO QELHMA SOU - aorist passive imperative 3s
>
> Concept remains passive in my understanding as per previous posts.

This doesn't really help your case, since the middle may be used in 
such a prayer with no apparent semantic difference:

Mt 26.42 PATER MOU, EI OU DUNATAI TOUTO PARELQEIN EAN MH AUTO PIW, 
GENHQHTW TO QELHMA SOU

MPoly 7.1 KAKEIQEN DE HDUNATO EIS hETERON CWRION APELQEIN, ALL' OUK 
HBOULHQH, EIPWN: TO QELHMA TOU QEOU GENESQW

So the burden, as I said in my last post, is on you to prove that 
GENHQHTW in Mt 26.42 CANNOT be sensibly construed as middle and GENESQW 
in MPoly 7.1 CANNOT be sensibly construed as passive. In light of MPoly 
7.1, it is clear that a middle form of GINOMAI is indeed an active 
option in a prayer for God's will to be accomplished. And I'm sure Carl 
would suggest that GENESQW in MPoly 7.1 may be understood as 
semantically passive. The point, though, is that determining this on 
the basis of morphology is questionable at best.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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