[B-Greek] 1 Pt. 1.10,11

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Thu Oct 27 13:13:19 EDT 2005


I see that as yet nobody has tackled this question from yesterday.  
I'll bite, if only to provoke alternative responses!

On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:40 PM, edmishoe at yahoo.com Eddie Mishoe wrote:

>
> 10. PERI hHS SWTHRIAS EXEZHTHSAN KAI EXHRAUNHSAN
> PROFHTAI hOI PERI THS EIS hUMAS CARITOS
> PROFHTEUSANTES,
>
> 11. ERAUNWNTES EIS TINA H POION KAIRON EDHLOU TO EN
> AUTOIS PNEUMA CRISTOU PROMARTUROMENON TA EIS CRISTON
> PAQHMATA...
>
> Does all that follow in verse 11 function as the
> object of ERAUNWNTES?

Yes, but it's a pretty complicated concatenation of subconcatenations!

I take it that the primary object of ERAUNWNTES is the indirect  
question, EIS TINA H POION KAIRON EDHLOU TO PNEUMA CRISTOU: "which  
particular occasion the spirit of Christ within them was indicating"  
-- and that that PNEUMA is further characterized by the participial  
phrase beginning with PROMARTUROUMENON, which phrase converts into  
English most readily as a relative clause: " ... the spirit of Christ  
in them, i.e. the spirit that was attesting in advance the things  
Christ suffered and the ensuing glorious events ..."

Carl W. Conrad
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