[B-Greek] RE: {B-Greek] Eph.2:8 - BDAG

Larry Baker bakerlarryn at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 18 18:32:14 EDT 2005


>> THi GAR XARITI ESTE SESWiSMENOI DIA PISTEWS KAI
TOUTO OUK EC hUMWN,
>> QEOY
>> TO DWRON.
>> Note the word TOUTO.  It is from hOUTOS, hAUTH,
TOUTO.  A check in
>> BDAG
>> (Baur, Danker, Arndt & Gingrich _A Greek-English
Lexicon of the New
>> Testament and Other Early Christian Literature_
(3rd edition), which
>> is
>> THE lexicon to have for NT studies (Accept no
substitutes.  Go, sell
>> your
>> first-born child and buy one.), reveals that it
signifies first of
>> all
>> "the person or thing comparatively near at hand in
the discourse
>> material."  In this case that would be PISTIS.  It
is thus a matter
>> of
>> the nearest referent.
>>
>> george


BDAG 3rd ed. on page 741 references this very verse
and pronoun, as adverbial - "and at that, and
especially" - rather than a specific word, as
antecedent.  This would be similar to 3 John 5, as
Wallace notes on page 335 in his GGBB.

Larry N. Baker


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