[B-Greek] Phil 2:19 ELPIZW EN KURIWi

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Nov 25 14:25:25 EST 2008


On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Kimmo Huovila wrote:

> It has been suggested that ELPIZW EN KURIWi IHSOU in Phil 2:19 means  
> "I
> hope... if the Lord Jesus wills" (instead of the hope being in the  
> Lord Jesus
> like in 1 Cor. 15:19). What support is there for this?
>
> Phil 2:19
> ELPIZW DE EN KURIWi IHSOU TIMOQEON TACEWS PEMYAI hUMIN...

In view of the fact that the phrase EN KURIWi appears 96x in the GNT  
(95x within the greater Pauline corpus), I would think that  
proposition difficult to maintain. See BDAG s.v. EN §4.c. esp. in  
Paul. or Joh. usage, to designate a close personal relation in which  
the referent of the ἐν-term is viewed as the controlling influence:  
under the control of, under the influence of, in close association  
with ...


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






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