[B-Greek] Ephesians 2:1
rhutchin at aol.com
rhutchin at aol.com
Wed Jul 29 14:26:19 EDT 2009
We have in Ephesians 2:1--
KAI hUMAS ONTAS NEKROUS TOIS PARAPTWMASIN KAI TAIS hAMARTIAIS hUMWN...
This passage appears to be a sentence fragment in search of something to attach itself.? KJV addressed this by going all the way down to v5 to find a subject for the verse (which seems, to me, to make a Greek argument very difficult to follow).? More recent translations have opted to translate it as, "You were dead," thus erasing what, in the Greek, appears to be a fragment.
So, is the passage in v1 a sentence fragment (or are the modern translations correct to have, "You were dead")?
Could 2:1 be the end of the argument expressed at the end of chapter 1 in v22-23 and could it then be read as "which is his body...even you,..."?
Is there a grammatical resolution to v1 or is this an issue only in my intellectually challenged mind?
Roger Hutchinson
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