[B-Greek] Rule for supplying missing word?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jan 9 05:02:59 EST 2007


On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:27 PM, Kenneth Litwak wrote:

>   When Paul writes KAI KURIOU CRISTOU IHSOU in Eph
> 1:2, is there any established grammatical principle by
> which we can decide if this has an implied TOU or an
> implied (hHMWN?  The next verse uses *hHMWN but that is
> not definitive here, I think.   Thanks.

Text: CARIS hUMIN KAI EIRHNH APO QEOU PATROS hHMWN KAI KURIOU IHSOU  
CRISTOU

As there's no article with QEOU PATROS hHMWN either. Cf. Rom 1:7, 1  
Cor 1:3, 2 Cor 1:3, Gal 1:3, Phil 1:2,  where the formula and  
phrasing is identical. It would appear to me that both QEOS and  
KURIOS IHSOUS CRISTOS are thought of as proper nouns/noun-phrases  
rather than titles.

Carl W. Conrad
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