[B-Greek] "Your faith and hope are in God" (1 Pet. 1:21)

Webb webb at selftest.net
Wed Apr 18 13:26:56 EDT 2007


Granting the qualifications you mentioned, are you inclined to take the
hWSTE as rather more logical in force (= "Therefore, in principle, your
faith and hope are in God"), or causative/resultive (= "As a result of God's
action in raising Christ from the dead and glorifying him, your faith and
hope are in God")? Or are these two senses possible to read at the same
time? If you're not happy with either one of those characterizations, how
would you render the verse?

Webb

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:13 AM
To: Webb
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] "Your faith and hope are in God" (1 Pet. 1:21)


On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Webb wrote:

> 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??

I think "OR" is just about right here.  Koine Greek has ceased to  
observe
any clear distinction between purpose and result constructions. Jerry
Reimer has just remarked regarding adnominal genitive phrases, so here
we may well think that subjective factors are likely to decide our  
preference
for reading a particular construction as one of purpose or one of  
result.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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