[B-Greek] The Genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 13 14:23:04 EDT 2006


On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> The reading that attempts to link IHSOUS directly to HLI, with the
> comment about IWSHF as a parenthesis, sounds to me like exegesis
> driven by a need to prove something.

OK, this statement should be supported.

LK3:23 KAI AUTOS HN IHSOUS ARCOMENOS hWSEI ETWN  TRIAKONTA, WN hUIOS,
hWS ENOMIZETO, IWSHF TOU HLI ...

Marshal (p.163) "The omission of the article before IWSHF led Godet  
to the view that the whole phrase hWS ENOMIZETO IWSHF as a  
parenthesis, so that Jesus was presented as the son of Eli ...".  
Marshal considers this is a misunderstanding of the function of TOU.  
He reads TOU as appositional to the preceding noun, not the article  
for the following noun. On this reading there is no missing TOU. "...  
so that the structure is: 'Jesus was the son ... of Joseph (who was)  
the (son) of Eli (who was) the (son) of ...'".

I am certain that someone will take exception to this but keep in  
mind you are arguing with I.H.Marshall no with E.Kline :-)

Elizabeth Kline







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