[B-Greek] 2 Peter 3:9
Rod Rogers
rngrogers at embarqmail.com
Fri Dec 14 10:12:20 EST 2007
2 Peter 3:9
OU BRADUNEI KURIOS THS EPAGGELIAS
hWS TINES BRADUTHTA hHGOUNTAI
ALLA
MAKROQUMEI EIS hUMAS
MH BOULOMENOS TINAS APOLESQAI
ALLA
PANTAS EIS METANOIAN CWRHSAI.
I understand this verse to have two
independent clauses and three dependent
clauses. The subject of the sentence is
KURIOS and I suppose there are two main
points of the verse in light of the finite
verbs, the Lord is not slow and He is
patient. I see the hWS clause as a
comparative clause, comparing the ungodly
which say where is his coming to the Lord
Himself.
I understand KURIOS to be the understood
subject of the third clause MAKROQUMEI EIS
hUMAS. My questions pertain to the last two
clauses. Are MH BOULOMENOS TINAS APOLESQAI
and PANTAS EIS METANOIAN CWRHSAI adverbial
clauses and if so would you diagrammatically
continue to place them under EIS hUMAS or
would you place them separately under
MAKROQUMEI (I would not place them under EIS
hUMAS)? Point being, does hUMAS govern the
extent/content of TINAS OR PANTAS in any way
(I don't think so)? Could MH BOULOMENOS TINAS
APOLESQAI stand on it's own with KURIOS as
the implied subject and ESTIN as the implied
verb? Anything else I'm missing?
I'll stop here although I have more
questions. I did not find much in the
archives on this verse, maybe because of the
theological implications of it. If it would
be better you can e-mail me off list on this.
rod rogers
bargersville, in
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