[B-Greek] Phil 2:6 Concessive or causal participle
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 20 17:36:26 EDT 2008
Usually whether a participle is concessive or casual
or something else is a pretty gray area; often the context
allows one to go either way or both. But I think in this
case it's pretty clearly concessive. Note the ALLA in
the next verse. The only way to take this as casual,
I think, is to construe, as KJV does, hARPAGMON as
"robbery," which is pretty nutty. Again, almost always
there is room for several interpretations, but this is one
of the rare cases where there is not.
Mark L.
--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Norman Wood <nandk.wood at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
From: Norman Wood <nandk.wood at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: [B-Greek] Phil 2:6 Concessive or causal participle
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 5:24 AM
Hi,
Phil 2:6 has
"hOS EN MORFH QEOU hUPARCWN OUC hARPAGMON hHGHSATO TO EINAI ISA QEOU"
Wallace describes this occurence of hUPARCWN as concessive p634Greek Grammar
Beyond the Basics.
However O'Brien (NIGTC)p 214 argues that this ought not to be rendered as
concessive, but as causal. Could someone offer suggestions on how to approach
this problem?
Best Wishes
Norman Wood
Scotland
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