[B-Greek] hUPOSTASIS Hebrews 3:14

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 10 19:58:10 EST 2008



Michael Abernathy wrote:

> Jeffrey,
> Maybe my understanding of language isn't up to par but it seems to me
> that you are asking for a grammatical reason for choosing a specific
> lexical meaning.

No.  I'm asking how you can construe the particular grammatical relationship that you want to see
the terms in Hebrews 3:4  as having with one another given the particular grammatical forms that
these terms are cast in in the verse.

Are you able to parse the constituent elements of this verse?


> A grammatical analysis, such as diagramming the
> sentence would tell me how each word in the sentence relates to the
> others but that wouldn't reveal the author's intent.

How would it **not** do this?

Jeffrey
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