[B-Greek] Is this active or passive?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Feb 10 12:16:31 EST 2007


Even if someone should prefer to translate it as a passive, there's  
no way in the world that the form PLHROUN could be understood as a  
passive by someone who knows Greek.

On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:09 PM, david.bielby at vcfbn.org wrote:

> Yes, this is helpful.  So it is taken as an active rather than
> passive.
>
> Thank you gentlemen!
>
> David
>
>>>  Hi David
>>>  In Walter Liefeld's Luke Commentary in the Expositors
>>>  Bible Commentary he equates "Jesus' coming death was
>>>  one that he would deliberately accomplish" with  "hEN
>>>  EMELLEN PLHROUN, which he was about to bring to
>>>  fulfillment".
>
>>>  Don't know if that helps.
>
>>>  David McKay
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> SUBJECT:   Re: [B-Greek] Is this active or passive?
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> Hi David
> In Walter Liefeld's Luke Commentary in the Expositors
> Bible Commentary he equates "Jesus' coming death was
> one that he would deliberately accomplish" with  "hEN
> EMELLEN PLHROUN, which he was about to bring to
> fulfillment".
>
> Don't know if that helps.
>
> David McKay
>
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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