[B-Greek] Ephesians 3:16-17

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Jan 15 06:21:00 EST 2005


At 2:12 AM -0500 1/15/05, George F Somsel wrote:
>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
>___________________
>
>"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.

I would add that EIS TON ESW ANQRWPON does not express purpose but is
rather an accusative of specification "as to," "with respect to"
strengthened with an EIS, which is not really essential for this but is
more commonly used in later Greek.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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