[B-Greek] AUTO TOUTO (2 Cor. 7:11)--referring to what??
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Wed Apr 25 22:46:37 EDT 2007
IDOU GAR AUTO TOUTO TO KATA QEON LUPHQHNAI POSHN KATEIRGASATO hUMIN
SPOUDHN ALLA APOLOGIAN ALLA AGANAKTHSIN ALLA FOBON ALLA EPIPOQHSIN ALLA
ZHLON ALLA EKDIKHSIN
EN PANTI SUNESTHSATE hEAUTOUS hAGNOUS EINAI TWi PRAGMATI
(2 Cor. 7:11)
After all, look at exactly what God's kind of pain* accomplished in you: not
just active commitment, not just determination to clear yourselves, not just
anger, not just alarm, but also yearning, passion, action to right the
wrong. In every way, you've shown yourselves to be innocent in this thing.
(The Spoken English New Testament, first draft)
Friends,
I've taken this as meaning,
IDOU GAR AUTO TOUTO TO
(KATA QEON LUPHQHNAI POSHN KATEIRGASATO hUMIN)
SPOUDHN-ALLA-APOLOGIAN-ALLA-AGANAKTHSIN-ALLA-FOBON-ALLA-EPIPOQHSIN-ALLA-ZHLO
N-ALLA-EKDIKHSIN
In other words, I had seen AUTO TOUTO TO referring to the entire
rhetorically ascensive list of characteristics which was stirred up in the
Corinthians by such (POSHN) godly discomfort (KATA QEON LUPHQHNAI) as Paul
has just been talking about in the previous verse.
But I see I'm totally outnumbered by translators who think AUTO TOUTO refers
to the godly discomfort: "this very godly discomfort". If that's the case,
does POSHN become untranslatable because in English you can't have both
"this" and "such" modifying the same thing?
Is my reading possible? Is it unbearably strained?
Webb Mealy
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