[B-Greek] Acts 15:11

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Jun 7 06:53:49 EDT 2005


On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 06:12:44 +0100 ph.maertens at sapo.pt writes:
> Dear B-Greekers,
> 
> Acts 15:11 reads as follow:
> 
> ALLA DIA THS XARITOS TOU KURIOU IHSOU PISTEUOMEN SWQHNAI KAQ ON 
> TROPON KAKEINOI
> 
> 
> My question is, how does the second part relate to the first part? 
> It would seem
> to me that there are at least two possibilities. In order to avoid 
> entering in
> the field of translation, I'll try to recast the phrase in Greek 
> (hopefully
> without introducing too much error?)
> 
> 1) EKEINOI KAI PISTEUOUSIN SWQHNAI DIA THS XARITOS TOU KURIOU ISOU
> 
> 2) PISTEUOMEN OTI KAI EKEINOI SWQHNAI DIA ktl
> 
> In other words, are they parallel phrases or subordinated?
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Philip Maertens
> Algarve, Portugal
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It would appear that what we have here is an ellipsis.  If we were to
supply the omitted phrase, the sentence might be

ALLA DIA THS XARITOS TOU KURIOU IHSOU PISTEUOMEN SWQHNAI KAQ' hON TROPON
KAKEINOI [EPISTEUSAN SWQHNAI]

The relationship is that of comparison "We X just as they Xed."  See BDAG
"6" s.v. KATA.

george
gfsomsel
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