[B-Greek] THS KLHRONOMIAS AUTOU

Wayne Leman wayne_leman at sil.org
Tue Jul 25 15:59:15 EDT 2006


The phrase THS KLHRONOMIAS AUTOU in Eph. 1:18 is translated as "his 
inheritance" in the more word-for-word English versions. But my 
understanding of the *English* word "inheritance" is that it refers to 
something that a person inherits not what someone bequests to another. If 
the referent of AUTOU is God, then is God the receiver of an inheritance or 
is he the giver of it? If it is the latter, should not an English word 
different from "inheritance" be used to translate KLHRONOMIAS, a word that 
would indicate what the giver of an inheritance gives?

Wayne
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