[B-Greek] Eph 2:10 hOIS PROETOIMAZW

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Fri Dec 11 21:51:20 EST 2009



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From: "Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:12 PM
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [B-Greek] Eph 2:10 hOIS PROETOIMAZW

> I got stuck in Eph 2:10
>
> AUTOU GAR ESMEN POIHMA
> KTRSQENTES EN CRISTWi IHSOU EPI ERGOIS AGAQOIS
> hOIS PROHTOIMASEN hO QEOS
> hINA EN AUTOIS PERIPATHSWMEN.
>
> Why do most translations take it as
>
>      "works which God prepared [for us]"
>
> as if it is with PROETOIMAZW + accusative.
>
> Why not here with hOIS (dative):
>
>    "works for which God prepared [us]"

You supplied the transliteration, here's the unicode:

10 αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς οἷς 
προητοίμασεν ὁ θεὸς ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν.

The relative pronoun is dative by attraction, a common construction.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter

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