[B-Greek] Paul's Greeting

Joe Ripley joseph.ripley at ntlworld.com
Thu Dec 6 19:33:38 EST 2007


I was looking at Paul's customary salutation, as in most of his 
letters ----APO QEOU PATROS hUMWN KAI KURIOU IHSOU KRISTOU (  Romans 1:7, 
Ephesians 1:2 etc. ) which is usually translated as "from God our Father and 
Lord Jesus".
Some have  "and from Lord Jesus" with from in italics.
In a 1993 B-Greek posting  John Richards wrote,

"  --could not the above passages (there are about 7 of them) be equally 
well
translated "Grace and peace from God, the Father of us and of our Lord
Jesus Christ"?

The two following posts were more about the other things that he wrote than 
the actual Greek.
In 2John 1:3 John uses a similar greeting but uses the preposition PARA 
twice which is less ambiguous.
Are there rules about when prepositions are to be repeated or is the above a 
sounder translation?

Joe Ripley 




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