[B-Greek] Subj of EUHGGELISQH 1Pe 4:6

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 22 17:49:05 EDT 2007


On Aug 22, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:

> 1 Pe 4:6
>
> EIS TOUTO GAR KAI NEKROIS EUHGGELISQH
> hINA KRIQWSI MEN KATA ANQRWPOUS SARKI
> ZWSI DE KATA QEON PNEUMATI
>
> What is EUHGGELISQH (was-declared-good-news)?
>
> Is it something I have to find in the preceding verses/pragraphs?
>
> How the most translation take 'the gospel' as the subject of the verb?

EUAGGELISQH is passive of EUAGGELIZW, "proclaim (the gospel)" -- the  
sense is "the gospel was proclaimed to the dead."

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




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