[B-Greek] "Your faith and hope are in God" (1 Pet. 1:21)
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Wed Apr 18 12:46:25 EDT 2007
TOUS DI AUTOU PISTOUS EIS QEON
TON EGEIRANTA AUTON EK NEKRWN
KAI DOXAN AUTWi DONTA
hWSTE THN PISTIN hUMWN KAI ELPIDA EINAI EIS QEON
Question: Before I looked at it closely in Greek, I'd always assumed that
this is saying that the people's faith is ultimately in God-reading the "so
that" as a logical "so that", rather than a causal "so that". But I'm
starting to think that the last phrase here is the equivalent of
hINA THN PISTIN hUMWN KAI ELPIDA Hi/WSIN EIS QEON
Sometimes hINA and hWSTE seem to straddle the telic/purposive and
ecbatic/resultive senses, and I'm wondering if this is one of them-whether
Peter is saying that God has raised Jesus from the dead and given him glory
so that (and with the end result that) you would come to believe in God.
Or is it as I had always assumed-that Peter is saying that belief in Christ
ultimately resolves to belief in God? Or??
Webb Mealy
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