[B-Greek] I Cor 14.2 QEWi
Bryant J. Williams III
bjwvmw at com-pair.net
Wed Nov 7 11:26:45 EST 2007
Dear Mitch,
I would check out Blass-DeBrunner-Funk, paragraphs 254-255, pages 133-134.
Para. 254. The article with nouns designating persons like QEOS, KURIOS, NEKROI,
EQNH. (1). QEOS and KURIOS (= YHWH but also Christ) designate beings of which
there is only one of a kind, and these words (especially KURIOS) frequently come
very close to being proper names; the article appears when the specific Jewish
or Christian God or Lord is meant (not 'a being of divine nature' or 'a Lord'),
but it is sometimes missing, especially after prepositions (APO QEOU Jn 3:2)[but
subsequently hO QEOS], frequently EN KURIWi) and with a genitive which depends
on an anarthrous noun (especially a predicate noun): Mt 27:43 hOTI QEOU EIMI
hUIOS, Lk 3:2 EGENETO RhHMA (subject) QEOU. Cf. Papyri (Mayser II 2, 25ff.). So
also UIE DIABOLOU A 13:10. ...
Para. 255. The article can be omitted in prepositional phrases (formulae from
the earlier stage of the language): (1). QP' ARGOU, EN AGRWi, EIS AGRON, but
also EN TWi AGRWi etc. (without reference to a particular field) with generic
article (as in TA KRINA TOU AGROU Mt 6:28). (2). AP' AGORAS Mk 7:4; EPI QURAIS
Mt 24:33. (3). Often in designations of time (also classical); PROS hESPERAN Lk
24:29; EN KAIRWi = hOTAN KAROS Hi Mt 24:25; AP' (EXi) ARXHS, EN ARXHi. (4). EPI
PROSWPON PIPTEIN Lk 5:12 etc., KATA PR. 2 C 10:7.-Cf. also paragraphs 263f.,
256ff. Mayser II 2, 14f., 35ff.; Eakin 333.
QEWi is in the same case as ANQRWPOIS. "For the one who is speaking in tongues
is not speaking to men, but to God." How you translate ANQRWPOIS, which is also
anarthrous, will also apply to QEWi.
En Xristwi,
Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:50 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] I Cor 14.2 QEWi
> hO GAR LALWN GLWSSHi OUK ANQRWPOIS LALEI ALLA QEWi
> OUDEIS GAR AKOUEI PNEUMATI DE LALEI MUSTHRIA
>
> My question is the anarthrous QEWi. What is the rule
> for anarthrous nouns in this structure? (Is it God,
> the God, a god, a God?)
>
> Mitch Larramore
> Sugar Land, Texas
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