[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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