[B-Greek] 2 Peter 1:8 OUK
virgil newkirk
virgilsalvage1 at msn.com
Sun Mar 12 23:05:08 EST 2006
Mitch,
Thanks for questioning this. What an interesting structure this is...never
noticed it before. In a quick check it seems like most translations put a
big "if" in here with reference to the being and abounding but the more I
look at it with what precedes it, it appears it's part of a string of
positive almost presumptive pre-suppositions on Peter's part that these
things are of course present and happening or expected to happen. I know you
didn't ask about it but it seems that the "if" is not called for. Rather,
again taking all these statements, including the one here in verse 8 as
Peter almost assuming that these things are so or are in the process of
becoming so, it seems that the OUK could only construe with the ARGOUS KAI
AKARPOUS. It seems assumed that the being and abounding and the EIS THN TOU
KURIOU hHMWN IHSOU CRISTOU EPIGNWSIN is there. I don't know...maybe there's
a term for this kind of speech/writing but at any rate I would say that in
this context the OUK could only (with the writer not really expecting them
being negated) indicate possible barreness and unfruitfulness accompanying
their knowledge of the Lord.
I don't know if this can be qualified according to grammar so much so as
according to the sense of what's being said/written and the way it is
worded. I don't know...I'll stick my neck out and say that.
Virgil Newkirk
Salt Lake City, Utah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:59 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] 2 Peter 1:8 OUK
> TAUTA GAR hUMIN hUPARCONTA KAI PLEONAZONTA OUK ARGOUS
> OUDE AKARPOUS KAQISTHSIN EIS THN TOU KURIOU hHMWN
> IHSOU CRISTOU EPIGNWSIN
>
>
> Is it the case that OUK can negate any of these three:
> 1. hUPARCONTA KAI PLEONAZONTA (both as conditionals)
> 2. ARGOUS OUDE AKARPOUS
> 3. KAQISTHSIN
>
>
>
> Mitch Larramore
> Sugar Land, Texas
>
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