[B-Greek] Eph 2:10 hOIS PROETOIMAZW
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Fri Dec 11 23:40:59 EST 2009
>> AUTOU GAR ESMEN POIHMA
>> KTRSQENTES EN CRISTWi IHSOU EPI ERGOIS AGAQOIS
>> hOIS PROHTOIMASEN hO QEOS
>> hINA EN AUTOIS PERIPATHSWMEN.
> 10 αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς οἷς
> προητοίμασεν ὁ θεὸς ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν
The "attraction" of the relative is due to the dative part of the biblical phrase "walk in them." I wonder if the repetition "in which God made preparation that we should walk in them" is a result of semitic interference?
Does the verb προητοίμασεν PROHTOIMASEN have two direct objects? The first, the relative οἷς for ἅ while the second is the nominal complement ἵνα hINA clause ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν hINA EN AUTOIS PERIPATHSWMEN? Do list members that are more linguistically oriented consider the NP ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν a direct object?
Yancy Smith, PhD
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>> I got stuck in Eph 2:10
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>> Why do most translations take it as
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>> "works which God prepared [for us]"
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>> as if it is with PROETOIMAZW + accusative.
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>> Why not here with hOIS (dative):
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>> "works for which God prepared [us]"
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> You supplied the transliteration, here's the unicode:
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> 10 αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς οἷς
> προητοίμασεν ὁ θεὸς ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν.
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> The relative pronoun is dative by attraction, a common construction.
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> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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