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

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Mar 19 13:04:29 EDT 2008


On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Carl Conrad wrote:

>
> 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 mean the clause that follows immediately, ὅς ἐστιν ἡ  
κεφαλή, Χριστός (hOS ESTIN hH KEFALH, CRISTOS), that  
certainly has AUTON as its antecedent, but that doesn't create any  
problem with understanding TA PANTA as adverbial to the predicate of  
the clause in which it stands.
>
>
>
>> 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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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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