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William Warren
wfwarren at aol.com
Tue May 24 07:26:43 EDT 2005
Another perhaps more literal translation that would get to the
meaning of Mt. 16:13 is: "Whom do men/people claim the Son of Man to be?
paz,
Bill Warren
Director of the Center for New Testament Textual Studies
Landrum P. Leavell, II, Professor of New Testament and Greek
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
On May 24, 2005, at 2:24 AM, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:
> I believe you meant Matt 16:13 instead of 12:13. Anyway, I believe
> this might be a predicate accusative. Where you basically have two
> accusatives, one of them becomes the subject of the infinitive and
> the other adds to or makes an assertion about the first. So in our
> verse TINA LEGOUSIN hOI ANQPWPOI EINAI TON hUION TOU ANQPWPOU;
>
> TINA(accusative) is the subject of EINAI(infinitive), TON hUION(2nd
> accusative) adds to this expression.and the infinitive acts like an
> equative verb.
>
> So you end up getting "Who do men say that the Son of man is?"
>
> I believe that is how they got that translation.
>
> --
> Kelton Graham
> KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
>
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>
>> In the workbook I am using to study Greek we are giving partial
>> verses from
>> the new testament and other places to translate.
>>
>> I was trying to translate TINA LEGOUSIN OI ANQRWPOI EINAI TON UION
>> TOU
>> ANQRWPOU? I was/am having problem with the infinitive EINAI. As
>> far as I know
>> it
>> means 'to be.' I was unable to make a reasonable statement in
>> translation in
>> terms of English grammar without translating EINAI as I would if
>> it read ESTIN.
>>
>> The sentence comes from the last part of Matt: 12:13. I went there
>> in the
>> NASB translation of the text and what they did was translate EINAI
>> as ESTIN
>> using the English is (ESTIN). Why does the present active
>> infinitive translate
>> as
>> the third person singular present? Is there something I have missed?
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