[B-Greek] Romans 8:23
Jeffrey T. Requadt
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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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