[B-Greek] Ephesians 5:33

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Wed Jan 19 12:10:10 EST 2005


Rion Reece, rionreece at hotmail.com, wrote, 1/19/05 5:41:53 AM Pacific Standard 
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       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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