[B-Greek] Ephesians 1:4 - Adjectival prepositional phrase?
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard at ont.com
Mon Sep 4 17:03:39 EDT 2006
OwenW530 at aol.com wrote:
>Thanks for the responses so far. While there seemed to be a little bit more
>focus upon my the way I proposed a possible translation, which I meant to get
>more at the meaning of the verse if it was adjectival and not as a literal
>translation (my apologies for not clarifying that), it seems the consensus is
>that it can not be an adjectival phrase.
>
>Another favor, if you do not mind. I have searched my Greek text books and
>the Internet for anything that actually discusses in details the usage of
>adverbial and adjectival prepositional phrases but to no avail. Does anyone have
>any sources that I could refer to, or a few examples from the New Testament
>where the prepositional phrase is adjectival so I can begin to at least try to
>understand when a prepositional phrase may be used in that way?
>
>
HH: Here are a couple of links. The first is a doctoral dissertation on
prepositional phrases in the NT entitled
_The Exegesis and Translation of Prepositional Phrases in the Greek New
Testament_.
www.ocms.ac.uk/abstracts/pdf/1996_bendor-samuel.pdf
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007&layout=&query=toc&loc=1
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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