[B-Greek] PNEUMATIKAIS

+Fr Patrick B O'Grady fatherpatrick at fastmail.fm
Thu Oct 23 22:18:05 EDT 2008


PNEUMATIKAIS modifies only WDAIS, and none of the others. This exegesis
is based on long tradition within Orthodox Christian interpretation of
the New Testament. The exact same Greek word order is found in Ephesians
5:18.
In H KAINH DIAQHKH: META SUNTOMOU hERMHNAIAS, a parallel koine and
modern Greek New Testament by the venerable Greek scholar, Panagiotis
Trembelas, we find this modern Greek parallel for the Colossians passage
in view:
...ME PSALMOUS KAI hUMNOUS KAI PNEUMATIKAS QDAS...  So here, we can see
how the Greeks themselves read the text. Even though the adjective
follows the noun in the received text, it is meant to go only with
WDAIS. BTW, it seems to me that if the adjective had to go with the
other nouns, it would be worded something like this:
...PSALMOIS KAI hUMNOIS KAI WDAIS TOIS PNEUMATIKOIS
Fr Patrick

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:03:12 -0400, "Fridolin Janzen" <fjanzen at gmx.net>
said:
> In Colossians 3:16, does the adjective PNEUMATIKAIS modify only the noun
> before it, WDAIS, or does it modify all three preceding nouns?
> 
> Does the text say: ".teaching and admonishing one another in spiritual
> psalms and spiritual hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in
> your
> hearts to the Lord.", or does it simply say: ".teaching and admonishing
> one
> another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in
> your
> hearts to the Lord.", the way we usually understand it?
> 
> If it is the case that the adjective modifies all three nouns, the order
> of
> the words would have to switched around in my Portuguese translation. 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
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