[B-Greek] Revelation 7:4 and Israel

Edgar Foster edgarfoster2003 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 12 12:42:14 EDT 2008


Greetings,

The text reads (Revelation 7:4): KAI HKOUSA TON ARIQMON TWN ESFRAGISMENWN hEKATON TESSARAKONTA TESSARES XILIADES ESFRAGISMENOI EK PASHS FULHS hUIWN ISRAHL.

Would you consider EK PASHS FULHS hUIWN ISRAHL an example of a partitive or wholative genitive such that John's thought is that the 144,000 (a part) are taken out of Israel (the whole) without exhaustively accounting for the entire class or nation Israel. Another way to word what I'm asking is, does the Greek here imply that "Israel" in this passage is not restricted to the 144,000 sealed ones?

Thanks,

Edgar Foster
Lenoir-Rhyne College



      



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