[B-Greek] Hebrews 10:29

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Fri May 13 13:32:33 EDT 2005


I have no quarrel with Doug's outlining (beyond wishing the  
transliteration were our conventional one, even though that is not  
obligatory), but I think that he has left the original question  
raised by Charles less than explicitly answered.

On May 12, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Charles Rempel wrote:
> POSWi DOKEITE CEIRONOS AXIWQHSETAI TIMWRIAS hO TON hUION TOU QEOU  
> KATAPATHSAS KAI TO hAIMA THS DIAQHKHS KOINON hHGHSAMENOS, EN hWi  
> hHGIASQH, KAI TO PNEUMA THS CARITOS ENUBRISAS;
>
> hHGIASQH is Aorist Passive Indicative 3S - "he was sanctified"
>
> To whom does the "he" refer? It seems to refer to hO ...  
> KATAPATHSAS ... hHGHSAMENOS ... ENUBRISAS.

I think it almost certainly does.

> Is it possible that it refers to TON hUION TOU QEOU?

That would require us to suppose that hO hUIOS TOU QEOU had Himself  
been "made hAGIOS" from previously being KOINOS. I'd say that's  
hardly likely but not grammatically impossible.

All of which is to say: it's a matter of reading the text in context  
rather than of parsing the Greek; the subject of hHGIASQH is NOT  
spelled out here but implicit. Guessing at the subject of hHGIASQH is  
not a matter of understanding the Greek as Greek.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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