[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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