[B-Greek] Rom 8:28 and RSV?

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Mon Sep 18 16:49:35 EDT 2006



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> On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:24 PM
> To: Craig J
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> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Rom 8:28 and RSV?
> 
> If you really want to get into the give-and-take of opinions on this
> subject, I suggest you do
> an archive search using SUNERGEI. This passage has been discussed
> many times and
>   I think it has hashed out about as thoroughly as it can be.
> 
> I would hold with what I think is a standard view of this passage,
> that PANTA is the n. pl.
> subject of SUNERGEI. Clearly an alternative view that the subject of
> SUNERGEI must
> be hO QEOS is sufficiently old that it even appears in some
> manuscripts; you might look
> at Metzger's note on this text in his "Textual Commentary." If hO
> QEOS is not deemed
> part of the original text, then understanding PANTA SUNERGEI as the
> subject and
> predicate seems a natural reading of the Greek text -- but it cannot
> be said that reading
> the text with PANTA as object and with an implicit hO QEOS as subject
> is impossible.

Agreeing completely with the good doctor here, but let me add that PANTA as the n.pl. subject is the simplest explanation of the grammar here, an so likely correct.  There are times when Occam's razor does cut truly...

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