[B-Greek] Ephesians 2:1

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 29 15:49:17 EDT 2009


If you want, you can take the hUMAS in 2:1 to be in apposition to
the PANTA in 1:22, but it is simpler to take HUMAS as the object
of SUNEZWOPOIHSEN in 2:5.  It's only hard to follow the first
ten times you read it. 

Mark L


FWSFOROS MARKOS

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, rhutchin at aol.com <rhutchin at aol.com> wrote:


From: rhutchin at aol.com <rhutchin at aol.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] Ephesians 2:1
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 12:26 PM


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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