[B-Greek] Help!

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Tue May 24 06:18:58 EDT 2005



JEvans1007 at aol.com wrote:

>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.
>  
>

That's as it should be.  "who do they say the son of man is" is right on 
the mark.

>The sentence comes from the last part  of Matt: 12:13.  I went there 
>

Ya shouldn't have.  Because when you did, you relied on a translation 
rather than doing your own. 

Jim

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