[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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