[B-Greek] 1 Pet. 3:21 syntax

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jul 17 09:38:24 EDT 2006


For my part, I'd esplain hO\ as relative pronoun (but with the entire  
notion of coming safely through the flood-waters by the ark as its  
antecedent) and also the subject of SWiZEI, and BAPTISMA as  
appositional to hO\ with ANTITUPON as predicative: "which now  
(baptism) brings you also safely through, as a corresponding item."

BDAG has (s.v. ANTITUPOS):

"In a compressed statement, with rescue through water as the dominant  
theme ὃ (i.e. hUDWR) KAI hUMAS ANTITUPON NUN SWiZEI BAPTISMA baptism  
correspondingly now saves you, i.e. the salvation of Noah and family  
via water (δι᾿ ὕδατος), which supported the ark, is the  
τύπος for the salutary function of the water {p. 91} of baptism  
1 Pt 3:21. "

But the text is certainly problematic, and we've had more than one  
interpretation of this text on B-Greek (most recently, March 9-11,  
2006: [B-Greek] 1 Peter 3:20-21"). NET has: "And this prefigured  
baptism, which now saves you ..." and in the translator's note,  
explains the Greek text as "which also, [as] an antitype, now saves  
you, [that is] baptism.”


On Jul 17, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Kimmo Huovila wrote:

> Are you saying that BAPTISMA is the subject of SWiZEI and ANTITUPON  
> is a
> predicate of BAPTISMA?
>
> The referent of hO is not so interesting at the moment as its  
> syntactic
> relationship to ANTITUPON and BAPTISMA. (It more likely refers to  
> the whole
> event of the preceding verse or water, as KIBWTOS is feminine, but  
> this is
> beside the question.)
>
> Kimmo Huovila
>
> On Monday July 17 2006 14:33, George F Somsel wrote:
>> hO is a relative neuter PN and refers back to KIBWTOU in the  
>> preceding verse
> BAPTISMA is the subject "which is a correspondent [ANTITUPON] to"  
> KIBWTOU.
> The comparison is thus made between baptism and entering into the ark.
>>
>>   ___________
>>
>>
>> Kimmo Huovila <kimmo.huovila at helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>   What is the syntactic relationship between hO, ANTITUPON, and  
>> BAPTISMA in
>>   1.  Pet. 3:21?
>>
>> hO KAI hUMAS ANTITUPON NUN SWiZEI BAPTISMA, OU SARKOS APOQESIS  
>> hRUPOU ALLA
>> SUNEIDHSEWS AGAQHS EPERWTHMA.
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