[B-Greek] Eph 4:18, 22-24
David Bielby
dbielby at bloomingtonvineyard.org
Tue Jun 21 09:41:32 EDT 2005
On Jun 20, 2005, at 5:46 PM, David Bielby wrote:
>> Dear Dr. Conrad,
>>
> After talking to one of my friends on this who is a Hebrew buff,
> he suggested this may be a parallelism shining through which if true
> would essentially concur with you.
>
> His suggestion is that this is a poetic parallelism...
>
> Ephesians 4:17 b & 4:18 a
>
> MATAIOTHTI TOU NOOS AUTWN,
> ESKOTWMENOI TH DIANOIA ONTES
.. That might well be, although I will confess that I think the
formulation of Ephesians is at
several points (most especially at the very beginning) unfathomable.
Since that's been
discussed repeatedly, I see no point in reopening that discussion.
I'm finding more as I work through this text. When looking at Ephesians
4:22-24 I see what looks to me
like this may be some sort of a structure, I don't know what to label it
as.but it has a phrase, a link back
to vs 18 and then a matching phrase to follow it up.
Both phrases end with 'Hebrew' genitives?
4:22 APOQESQAI hUMAS KATA THN PROTERAN ANASTROFHN TON PALAION ANQRWPON
TON FQEIROMENON KATA TAS EPIQUMIAS THS APATHS,
4:23 ANANEOUSQAI DE TW PNEUMATI TOU NOOS UMWN
4:24 KAI ENDUSASQAI TON KAINON ANQRWPON TON KATA QEON KTISQENTA EN
DIKAIOSUNH
KAI OSIOTHTI THS ALHQEIAS
Noting the link of NOOS back to the possible poetic parallelism in 4:17 b
and 4:18 a.does this structure strengthen that
view? Is there a term for this structure in Ephesians 4:22-24? Am I
reading too much into this?
Thanks again for your input!
David Bielby
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