[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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