[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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