[B-Greek] Referent of THN AUTHN in Heb. 6:11

kgraham0938 at comcast.net kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Sat May 19 06:17:08 EDT 2007


Hey Webb, it just looks like AUTHN is being used as some sort of attributive adjective, modifying SPOUDHN.    The accusative article belongs to SPOUDH not AUTOS, since AUTOS lies within the article it is modifying it.  So it should be rendered 'the same dilegence.'

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Kelton Graham 
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From: "Webb" webb at selftest.net

> 10 OU GAR ADIKOS hO QEOS EPILAQESQAI TOU ERGOU hUMWN 
> KAI THS AGAPHS hHS ENEDEIXASQE EIS TO ONOMA AUTOU 
> DIAKONHSANTES TOIS hAGIOIS KAI DIAKONOUNTES 
> 11 EPIQUMOUMEN DE hEKASTON hUMWN THN AUTHN ENDEIKNUSQAI SPOUDHN 
> PROS THN PLHROFORIAN THS ELPIDOS ACRI TELOUS (Heb. 6:10-11) 
> 
> On first reading, I took THN AUTHN in v. 11 as meaning "the same as each 
> other". But then I thought, could it mean, the same SPOUDH as they have 
> displayed and are displaying by serving the holy ones (v. 10)? I don't 
> advocate that reading; but if anyone can give me a grammatical reason for 
> considering it or for ruling it out, I'd be grateful. 
> 
> Webb Mealy 
> 
> 
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