[B-Greek] Rm 9:7a Seed of Abraham or Children of Abraham
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 15:19:31 EDT 2006
Hi Iver,
As I reread your comment and the text in question, you finally have
given me what seems to be a last nail to coffin to bury this question.
Regarding 'SPERMA' + 'ABRAAM' vs. 'TEKNA', though 'children' and
'seed' are overlapping in semantic and usage, and many use
'descendants' for 'SPERMA' : e.g.
"nor are all the children Abraham's true descendants" (NET)
whereas NRSV confusedly mixed the two words up -
"not all of Abraham's children are his true descendants."
I was amazed to read a Korean translation where both are rendered same
(meaning 'descendants').
Thanks again.
Oun Kwon.
On 4/29/06, Iver Larsen <iver at larsen.dk> wrote:
>
> How do you connect PANTES with TEKNA? Since TEKNA is neuter plural and SPERMA is neuter singular, I cannot see how the
> masculine plural PANTES can modify either of the two. There is no phrase in the text that can be translated "all
> children".
>
> Therefore, I take PANTES to function substantively (with an implied ANQRWPOI) so that the construction is:
> "and not all (people/Jews - cf. PANTES hOI EX ISRAHL just before) (are) children (of God/Abraham in the spiritual sense)
> because they are Abraham's seed".
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