[B-Greek] TA PANTA in Ephesians 4:15

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Mar 19 12:49:26 EDT 2008


On Mar 19, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Michael Aubrey wrote:

> "EIS AUTON here is the goal and TA PANTA as has been said is a  
> circumstantial accusative (of respect). We are to grow towards Jesus  
> (i.e. to become likehim) in all respects (TA PANTA)."
>
> But this understanding of the two words ruins the noun phrase. Why  
> separate a relative clause from its head noun if you don't need to?

What relative clause are we talking about here?

> If you take TA PANTA as functioning within the prepositional phrase  
> that problem is removed. For that reason, I think TA PANTA  should  
> be seen as modifying AUTOV.

I suppose you mean AUTON -- but I think it's questionable that an  
adverbial phrase can qualify a pronoun. It can certainly qualify the  
whole predicate, AUXHSWMEN EIS AUTON.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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