[B-Greek] Obj. Genitive in Matt 5.13 & 14

kgraham0938 at comcast.net kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 3 21:37:22 EST 2005


Hey John it's good to see another person from MTS on here.  I know Kunjemmen would be proud.   Anyway, I looked at all of the genitives in Wallace and it looks like the objective genitive would be the best fit for Matt 5:13 and 14.

At first I was going to say it was possesive, but Jesus is not saying that you are salt that belongs to the earth.[and just about every genitive can be possesive.'  This is not a descriptive genitive either nor subjective.

I suppose you could say that "You are salt for the earth."  and "light for  the world."  That seems to fit the objective genitive standard.



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Kelton Graham 
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> I wondered if you interpreted TO ALAS TNS GNS and TO PHOS TOU KOSMOU in Matthew 
> 5:13 & 14 as objective genitives...and if so, what might that imply about Jesus' 
> statements regarding his disciples? 
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