[B-Greek] Ephesians 5:33
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Remington186 at aol.com
Wed Jan 19 12:10:10 EST 2005
Rion Reece, rionreece at hotmail.com, wrote, 1/19/05 5:41:53 AM Pacific Standard
Time
In Ephesians 5:33 we read:
PLHN KAI UMEIS OI KAQ ENA THN EAUTOU GUNAIKA OUTWS AGAPATW
WS EAUTON
(Please forgive any errors)
PLHN KAI hUMEIS, OI KAQ hENA, hEKASTOS THN hEAUTOU GUNAIKA hOUTWS AGAPATW hWS
hEAUTON, KTL [UBS, NA, WH, TR, M ...]
My first inclination was to read this as, "indeed, even you, who are
of the
One, each of you must love his wife as himself"
OI KAQ hENA is an idiomatic expression - rendered variously, KJ: in
particular; ASV: severally; NWT: individually; NEB: individually,
I am reading KAQ ENA much as we read KATA PNUEMA. My reason for doing
so has to do with larger context. The author has been emphasizing a
diversity
within unity in the Godhead, in the faith, in the church and now in
the family
(This argument would begin with chapter 4 of Ephesians).
Nonetheless, I cannot find anyone else who is translating this verse
in this
way, so I assume I am missing some point of grammar. Please set me
right.
;-)
Rion K. Reece
Hi Rion,
Dr. Conrad has put it very succinctly, 1/19/05 7:06:45 AM PST,
> I think raher you ought to read KAQ hENA as equivalent to hEKASTOS
> predicative, "individually." Cf. BDAG s.v. hEIS (5.special
> combinations; e. distrib.).
> Carl Conrad
I would add [to flesh it out], from Nicoll's, The Expositor's Greek Testament
, "The distributive phrase OI KAQ hENA, "ye one by one," individualizes the
hUMEIS, and excludes all exceptions."
Warmest regards,
Remington Mandel
Hemet CA USA
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