[B-Greek] Word order in 2 Cor 5:19

Kimmo Huovila kimmo.huovila at helsinki.fi
Sat May 12 01:36:22 EDT 2007


On Thursday 10 May 2007, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> > (KH) Thanks. How well would you consider "TI EPOIEI hO QEOS EN CRISTWi?"  
> > fits the
> > word order?
> 
> You are asking a question about pragmatics and word order?

Yes.

> I would   
> venture the suggestion that hOTI QEOS HN EN CRISTWi KOSMON  
> KATALLASSWN hEAUTWi answers the question *who* is doing what, not  
> what was QEOS doing. At this time I am having a hard time formlating  
> a nice theortical defense for this. Paul states first that TA DE  
> PANTA EK TOU QEOU ... and I would take QEOS HN EN CRISTWi KOSMON  
> KATALLASSWN hEAUTWi as an expansion on that idea.
> 
> Perhaps later on the fog will clear I will post a better answer,
> 
> 
> Elizabeth Kline

Thanks. One important question is whether EN CRISTWi goes with HN or 
KATALLASSWN. If with KATALLASSWN, EN CRISTWi appears topicalized within the 
clause [EN CRISTWi...hEAUTWi].

Kimmo Huovila



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