[B-Greek] Galatians 2:8 ellipsis
Vasile Stancu
stancu at mail.dnttm.ro
Sun Feb 17 02:18:25 EST 2008
The ellipsis here seems to be not perfectly mathematical, at first sight...
... or, perhaps - if I am allowed to change my mind - it is rigorously
mathematical, if EIS is emphasised, instead of TWN, as the prompter for the
ellipsis. The sense of the phrase would then be, O GAR ENERGHSAS PETRW EIS
APOSTOLHN THS PERITOMHS ENHRGHSEN KAI EMOI EIS TA EQNH [APOSTOLOS] (i.e.
that I, Paul, be that which was previously said of Peter, except, not to
those of the circumcision, but to those of the gentiles).
Vasile Stancu
P.S. Please do not take this as an opinion of a scholar: I am just a person
who has a great passion for biblical Greek. A faithful reader.
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Subject: [B-Greek] Galatians 2:8 ellipsis
Galatians 2:8
O GAR ENERGHSAS PETRW EIS APOSTOLHN THS PERITOMHS ENHRGHSEN KAI EMOI EIS TA
EQNH
My question pertains to the phrases:EIS APOSTOLHN THS PERITOMHS and EIS TA
EQNH.
I would have expected an ellipsis of the accusative APOSTOLHN followed by
the genitive TWN EQNWN. Instead it is EIS TA EQNH.
Is there any significance to the difference here?
Thank you.
Walt Seevers
Missoula Montana
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