[B-Greek] Acts 2:23
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rhutchin at aol.com
Mon Aug 24 07:51:40 EDT 2009
Acts 2:23 reads--
TOUTON THi hWRISMENHi? BOULHi KAI PROGNWSEI TOU QEOU EKDOTON DIA XEIROS ANOMWN PROSPHZANTES ANEILATE
In a discussion on this verse, a comment was made--
"Again, the passage explicitly lists God's determinative counsel and foreknowledge (progneois)
as the instrumental means by which Christ was delivered to the forces
you mention above. ...God's determinative counsel and foreknowledge are still in the dative
case and thus are the instrumental means of Christ being delivered to
the forces you mention. As the passage says, "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God". This is simply what the passage says in both English and Greek."
By instrumental means, I take the person to mean "cause" so that the the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God caused (or brought about) the end result (the crucifixion).
Is this what the speaker in the passage in Acts meant by using the dative or is it an exegetical extrapolation by the commenter from that text?
Roger Hutchinson
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