[B-Greek] Matthew 16:13
Sarah Madden
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 14:46:53 EST 2008
Matthew --
With infinitives, the subject is in the accusative. In this case, the
infinitive EINAI (to be) takes as its subject TON hUION (the Son), not to be
confused with the accusative TINA (whom), which is actually the direct
object of LEGOUSIN (they say). The accent was added to TINA's iota because
this is a question. I prefer some other translations (e.g., KJV, NASB)
because they are closer to the Greek than is the NIV.
Sarah
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Maryland
On Jan 21, 2008 2:00 PM, Matthew Blair <mpblair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> As mentioned before, I am a beginning self-study student using Mounce's
> BBG. I am working through the workbook as well, was presented this
> fragment
> from Matthew 16:13.
>
> TINA (accent over iota) LEGOUSIN hOI ANTHRWPOI EINAI TON hUION TOU
> ANTHRWPOU;
>
> I parsed this as: who they say the people to be the son of man?
>
> And translated it as: Who do the people say is the Son of Man?
>
> However, the NIV translates this as: Who do the people say that the Son of
> Man is?
>
> The difference between my translation and the NIV does not seem small. In
> my translation, the question is almost one of identification of the Son of
> Man (who among these is the Son of Man?). In the NIV, the question is one
> of identification of the Son of Man with something else.
>
> My question: what did I miss when translating this quote? In other words,
> why didn't my translation come out similar to the NIV? :-)
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
>
> Matthew Blair
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