[B-Greek] Philippians 1:26

Eric Inman eric.inman at wescorpflex.com
Sat Mar 1 01:17:35 EST 2008


My guess is that the previous verses are also key to interpreting EN EMOI.
The previous verses discuss the trade offs between dying and being with
Christ vs. continuing to live and benefiting the recipients of the letter.
He concludes that he is certain that he will live, with the result that he
will be an agent (EN EMOI) in the increasing of their confidence in Christ.
If he died he could no longer be involved, but by living he can be. The
clause DIA ... hUMAS states more specifically what he will do. If EN EMOI
were removed from the sentence it would still make sense, but adding EN EMOI
forms a stronger link to the thoughts of the previous verses.

Anyhow, that's my guess.

Eric Inman

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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Donohoe Jr.
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:11 PM
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Subject: [B-Greek] Philippians 1:26

I have spent a good deal of time this evening trying
to put semantic tags on the preposition EN as used in
Phil. 1:26.

I noticed it is translated many different ways in the
mainstream translations. I'm still undecided on the
phrase EN EMOI. I think the rest of the verse
obviously is the key to enterpreting EN EMOI. I'm sure
it seemed 'natural' to the original hearers of the
letter to have consecutive ENs with a different
functions. I guess its this consecutive usage with
different functions that is causing me problems. Of
course I could be wrong in seeing the ENs functioning
differently. I just wanted to hear others' think out
loud about just what Paul intended. Here is the whole
verse.

hINA TO KAUCHMA hUMWN PERISSEUHi EN CRISTWi IHSOU EN
EMOI DIA THS EMHS PAROUSIAS PALIN PROS hUMAS.

ex animo

Hugh Donohoe


 
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