[B-Greek] Romans 5
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Jun 16 15:34:01 EDT 2005
On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:16 AM, George F Somsel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Eric Weiss
> <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>> 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).
>>
> _____________
>
> Yes, being temporal it does coincide with APEQANEN. Your example of
> 5.10 is a different construction -- the nominative absolute
except that ECQROI in 5.10 is NOT Nominative ABSOLUTE: my text has
EI GAR ECQROI ONTES KATHLLAGHMEN TWi QEWi ... ECQROI ONTES is simply
circumstantial participle to KATHLLAGHMEN TWi QEWi
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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