[B-Greek] Ephesians 3:16-17

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Sat Jan 15 02:12:40 EST 2005


On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:29:51 -0500 Jeremiah McGowan
<jeremiahmcgowan at yahoo.com> writes:
> B-Greekers,
>   I was hoping someone here might be able to help me out with this
> passage (Eph. 3:16-17):
> 
> INA DWi UMIN KATA TO PLOUTOS THS DOXHS AUTOU DUNAMEI KRATAIWQHNAI 
> DIA
> TOU PNEUMATOS AUTOU EIS TON ESW ANQRWPON, (17) KATOIKHSAI TON 
> CRISTON
> DIA THS PISTEWS EN TAIS KARDIAS UMWN, EN AGAPH ERRIZWMENOI KAI
> TEQEMELIWMENOI
> 
> So far I've translated it as:
> (16) So that he might give to you out of his glorious riches to be
> strengthened in power through his spirit. In the inner man (17) 
> dwells
> Christ through the faith (which is) in your hearts, which is 
> established
> and strengthened in love.
> 
> I'm assuming that the EIS in 16 in working with the infinitive in 17 
> to
> indicate purpose. However, most major translations take EIS TON ESW
> ANQRWPON to go with the previous phrase, giving something such as
> "...strengthened in power through his spirit in your inner 
> being..."
> (NIV). Am I missing something or is my translation valid? If it's 
> valid,
> is it likely to be correct, or is there a reason why the NIV and 
> NASB
> (the translations I've checked so far) chose to go a different 
> route
> that I haven't seen yet?
> 
> Jeremiah McGowan
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"Grant" rather than "give" would yield a smoother translation.  
I would take EIS TON ESW ANQRWPON with what precedes rather than putting
a full stop before it since it indicates where the strengthening is to
take place.
TON XRISTON in the acc. is the subject of the inf. KATOIKHSAI.

george
gfsomsel
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