[B-Greek] Romans 5

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 16 09:36:47 EDT 2005


> 6.   ONTWN hHMWN ASQENWN . . . APEQANEN.
> 8.   hAMARTWLWN ONTWN hHMWN . . . APEQANEN
> 
> What we have in vv. 6, 8 is a genitive absolute which functions
> adverbially in relation to the main verb APEQANEN -- "while we were weak
> / sinners . . . he died."  The adverbial usage here is generally temporal
> (see Wallace, pp. 654, 55).
 
And, being temporal, it would likely coincide timewise with APEQANEN ("died" ... "we were"). 
 
But must it coincide timewise with APEQANEN - i.e., does the aorist APEQANEN rule out 
translating the genitive absolutes as presents (i.e., "we are" versus "we were")? After all, Paul 
continues his argument with ECQROI ONTWN in 5:10, which is not a genitive absolute 
(ECQROI is nominative).

 


Eric S. Weiss


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