[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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