[B-Greek] Romans 8:23

Jeffrey T. Requadt jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com
Sun May 21 23:14:52 EDT 2006


This is probably a good example of why it's important to work directly from 
the Greek text when doing exegesis (if at all possible).
Jeffrey T. Requadt
Tucson, AZ

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From: "Mark Frost" <mark at buildinghishouse.org>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Romans 8:23


>I am looking at Romans 8:23, where is says, "the redemption of our body." 
>The resource that I have (Zodhiates The Complete WordStudy New Testament) 
>shows the word "our" as a personal pronoun rather than a possessive 
>pronoun, and it shows the word "body" as a noun with a definite article. 
>With that in mind, why then was it translated as "our body" rather than 
>something like "us, the body" or "we, the body"?  Would "us, the body" be a 
>valid translation from the Greek?  Please keep the answer fairly simple, as 
>I'm not a Greek scholar.  Thank you very much.
>
> Mark Frost
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