[B-Greek] Philippians 1:3-4 - MNEIA - DEHSIS

Kimmo Huovila kimmo.huovila at kolumbus.fi
Thu Aug 20 14:47:08 EDT 2009


A couple of thoughts on the "out of order" items in the list below.

Only in Philippians is EPI with the dative case. When Paul uses EPI for the 
occasion of something, he uses the genitive (EPI TWN PROSEUCWN MOU).

If we take hUPER PANTWN hUMWN to define DEHSEI, it is not really out of place.

I am not quite sure on what basis you put the phrases to each category, but 
would the EPI phrase if Phil 1:3 parallel better the PERI phrases in the next 
section as expressing the content of thanks?

META CARAS THN DEHSIN POIOUMENOS is slightly out of order, or more 
technically, parenthetic.

Kimmo Huovila

On torstai, 20. elokuuta 2009, Bryan Cox wrote:
> I've been going through Philippians as well and had difficulties with the 
verse in question. I thought it might be
> instructive to put together parallel passages.  The results are very 
interesting to me, perhaps they will be to
> others.  Strangely, when this verse in Philippians is compared with 
parallels (Did I find them all?) the word
> selection is slightly different and the word order appears slightly different.  
Note particularly the items between
> asterisks. It seems they are slightly "out of order".
> 
> 1 Th 1:2  -            EUXARISTOUMEN TW QEW
> Phm  1:4  -            EUXARISTW     TW QEW MOU
> Eph  1:16 - OU PAUOMAI EUXARISTWN
> Phi  1:3  -            EUXARISTW     TW QEW MOU
> Col  1:3  -            EUXARISTOUMEN TW QEW
> 1 Co 1:4  -            EUXARISTW     TW QEW MOU
> Rom  1:8  - PRWTON MEN EUXARISTW     TW QEW MOU
> 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 Th 1:2  -  
> Phm  1:4  - 
> Eph  1:16 - 
> Phi  1:3  - *EPI PASH TH MNEIA hUMWN*
> Col  1:3  - PATRI TOU KURIOU hHMWN IHSOU XRISTOU
> 1 Co 1:4  - 
> Rom  1:8  - DIA IHSOU XRISTOU
> 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 Th 1:2  - PANTWTE   PERI PANTWN hUMWN MNEIAN     POIOUMENOI 
> Phm  1:4  - PANTOTE                     MNEIAN SOU POIOUMENOS
> Eph  1:16 -          hUPER        hUMWN MNEIAN     POIOUMENOS
> Phi  1:3  - PANTOTE
> Col  1:3  - PANTOTE   PERI        hUMWN
> 1 Co 1:4  - PANTOTE   PERI        hUMWN
> Rom  1:8  -           PERI PANTWN hUMWN 
> 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 Th 1:2  - EPI TWN              PROSEUXWN hHMWN  ADIALEIPTWS MNEMONEUONTES 
hUMWN TOU ERGOU
> Phm  1:4  - EPI TWN              PROSEUXWN   MOU
> Eph  1:16 - EPI TWN              PROSEUXWN   MOU
> Phi  1:3  -         EN PASH         DEHSEI   MOU  *hUPER PANTWN hUMWN*  META 
XARAS THN *DEHSIN POIOUMENOS*
> Col  1:3  -                  PROSEUXOMENOI
> 1 Co 1:4  - 
> Rom  1:8  -  




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