[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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