[B-Greek] Titus 2:13 / Revelation 12:14

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Fri Aug 25 18:56:41 EDT 2006


William Ross wrote:

>Thank you George, for that pertinent inquiry.
>
>As I understand Wallace, the "key to identification" of an adjectival noun
>in the genitive is the distinct absence of another option. See Wallace pages
>81 and 82 "Key to identification." He gives preference to the thought of
>"posession" over "description." For "description" he says "...if none of the
>other categories fit" while if "belonging to" works, then that would be the
>likely usage.
>
>Please let me know if I am misreading Wallace on this matter, or if, after
>reading this, you still disagree on other more compelling grounds.
>  
>

HH: Yes, it is a misreading. First, all the categories on pages 79-107 
are under the heading of "A. Adjectival Genitive" (p. 78). Second, the 
discussion on pages 79-81 is on the "descriptive genitive," the first 
sub-category of Adjectival Genitive. The chart on p. 80 shows that all 
the other categories are within "descriptive genitive." So when Wallace 
talks about preferring another category than descriptive genitive if 
possible, he is just preferring a more exact category if one is 
identifiable. Possessive genitive is a large sub-category within the 
descriptive genitive, but so is attributive genitive. There is no 
automatic preference for the possessive genitive. And attributive 
genitive is just the sub-category that I referred to in talking about 
"sinful body" in Rom 6:6, not the descriptive genitive.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard

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