[B-Greek] Ephesians 2:1 What kind of dative in ONTAS NEKROUS TOIS?
William Ross
woundedegomusic at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 07:18:59 EDT 2006
Thank you for the clarification, Goerge. I am wondering if your translation
does not reflect that you are thinking more of a "dative of cause" such as
found in Luke 15:7?
EGW DE LIMW hWDE APOLLUMAI
"...but I am here starving to death"
Might that be what you are thinking?
What is your objection to a simple dative? "being dead to"?
William Ross
VGB, Argentina
On 8/13/06, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> You are correct, I would not translate it as "dead in." I rather think
> that a better translation would be "But when you were dead through your
> offenses and sins [2] in which you then lived according to the spirit of the
> current world age . . . [5] and we being dead through offenses he made [us]
> alive through Christ"
>
> ___________
>
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