[B-Greek] Eph 2:2 and syntactic significance of TOU PNEUMATOS

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Tue Feb 13 08:26:11 EST 2007


I think the big deal is that Wallace does not take PNEUMATOS to be personal but rather an internal attitude.  So it would not make sense to say

"the ruler... who is the attitude working in the sons of disobediance."
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Kelton Graham 
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From: "Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw at com-pair.net> 

> Dear Brian, 
> 
> If laid out correctly, it appears that it is Genitive of Apposition. 
> 
> EN hAIS POTE PERIEPATHSATE 
> KATA TON AIWNA TOU KOSMOU TOUTOU, 
> KATA TON ARCONTA TOU EXOUSIAS TOU AEROS, 
> TOU PNEUMATOS TOU NUN 
> ENERGOUNTAS 
> EN TOIS hUIOIS 
> THS APEIQEIAS (attributive genitive, ATR, p. 497) 
> 
> Clearly KATA TON AIWNA TOU KOSMOU TOUTOU = KATA TON ARCONTA TOU EXOUSIAS TOU 
> AEROS - TOU PNEUMATOS TOU NUN ENERGOUNTAS. 
> 
> BDF, page 92, paragraph 167, "167. Genitive of content and appositive 
> genitive. ...The use of the appositive genitive, i.e., of the genitive used 
> in the sense of an appositive, conforms in the NT to classical usage: 2 C 
> 5:5 TON ARRABWNA TOU PNEUMATOS 'the guarantee (earnest) which consists in 
> the spirit.' Cf., K.-G. I 264; Pfister, Festgabe Deissmann (1927) 72f.; Rob. 
> 498f. 
> 
> A. T. Robertson, Page 498-499, 4. Apposition or Definition gives several 
> examples indicating that it is a well-known idiom in Homer, and that, "as 
> Moulton suggests, the vernacular has preserved the poetical idiom in this as 
> in so many other matters. Poetry often expresses better than prose the 
> language of the people." I do find it interesting that Robertson does give 
> Eph 2:14, 20 as examples. 
> 
> En Xristwi, 
> 
> Rev. Bryant J. Williams III 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Abasciano" 
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> Subject: [B-Greek] Eph 2:2 and syntactic significance of TOU PNEUMATOS 
> 
> 
> > Eph 2:2: EN hAIS POTE PERIEPATHSATE KATA TON AIWNA TOU KOSMOU TOUTOU KATA 
> TON ARCONTA THS EXOUSIAS TOU AEROS TOU PNEUMATOS TOU NUN ENERGOUNTOS EN TOIS 
> hUIOIS THS APEIQEIAS 
> > 
> > There has been much discussion of the sense of the genitive TOU PNEUMATOS 
> in this verse. Some argue that this is a genitive of apposition (i.e., an 
> epexegetical genitive), idenifying the ruler that is mentioned. But Wallace 
> (104; cf. 97) claims that this is impossible, asserting that genitives of 
> apposition cannot occur when both nouns are personal. Do you agree with this 
> assessment? It seems a bit overstated to me, though a genitive of apposition 
> here is awkward. Of course, there are several options as to the actual 
> relationship here. So I am interested to see if list members think Wallace 
> is correct to insist that genitives of apposition cannot occur when both 
> nouns are personal, and then what list members think is the most probable 
> syntactic significance of TOU PNEUMATOS. 
> > 
> > God bless! 
> > 
> > Brian Abasciano 
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