[B-Greek] James 4:14 OITINES with 2nd person verb

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 2 00:32:29 EST 2006


On Jan 1, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Scott Wells wrote:

> (13) AGE NUN OI LEGONTES SHMERON H AUPION POREUSOMEQA EIS THNDE THN  
> POLIN
> KAI POIHSOMEN EKEI ENIAUTON KAI EMPOREUSOMEQA KAI KERDHSOMEN (14)  
> hOITINES
> OUK EPISTASQE TO THS AUPION POIA hH ZWH hUMWN ATMIS GAR ESTE hH  
> PROS OLIGON
> FAINOMENH EPEITA KAI AFANIZOMENH
>
> I am not sure what to make of hOITINES with the 2nd person verb  
> EPISTASQE.
> My first thought was to render the phrase "You, who do not know  
> (the what
> of) tomorrow, what is your life?
>
> But upon checking several Eng translations I saw that none followed  
> this
> rendering.  Even the editor's punctuation of the GNT (a semicolon)  
> seems to
> argue against it.  Porter renders the verse "you by your very  
> nature do not
> know" arguing for the essential use of OSTIS (Idioms, 133).  How  
> should this
> verse be understood?
>
> Scott Wells

hOITINES points back to OI LEGONTES. AGE NUN (v.13a) marks what  
follows as direct address which explains the use of the second person  
EPISTASQE.

Elizabeth Kline







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