[B-Greek] Romans 8:23
Ron Fay
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Sun May 21 18:02:48 EDT 2006
>Mark:
>
>Are you aware that the Greek Personal Pronoun EGW in
>the Genitive case hHMWN (here plural) is how you form
>a Possessive Pronoun? If you are not familiar with
>Greek, it would look like this "the redemption (of)
>the body (of) ours." I think that would reduce to "the
>redemption of our body."
>
>Check out here again to see if any professors answer
>this; I'm a student like you.
>
>Mitch Larramore
Mitch is exactly right. A personal pronoun can also be possessive, as
possession (or any function of a pronoun) depends upon what case it is. The
case of this pronoun is genitive, which is in fact the case used for
possession.
- Ron
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Ph. D. candidate in New Testament
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