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

Brian Abasciano bvabasciano at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 08:41:18 EST 2007


But Wallace does not deny the genitive of apposition, but that it can occur 
with two personal nouns. As I said, this seems overstated, but I am partly 
wondering what others think about this claim.

God bless,

Brian Abasciano

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw at com-pair.net>
To: "Brian Abasciano" <bvabasciano at gmail.com>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Eph 2:2 and syntactic significance of TOU PNEUMATOS


> 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
>




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