[B-Greek] hUPOSTASIS Hebrews 3:14

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 10 17:21:40 EST 2008



Michael Abernathy wrote:

> Jeffrey,
> I assume you are confused by my awkward translation.
> I didn't want to add too many words that weren't in the Greek manuscript.
> Here's the same verse in the NIV
> ^14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the
> confidence we had at first
> hUPOSTASIS often carries the idea of existence or substance.
> I thought here it might refer to Jesus as creator rather than the basis
> of our confidence.

Why?  What grammatical, not lexical,  justification could you offer in support of this idea?

Jeffrey
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