[B-Greek] hH PERITOMH subject Phil. 3:3?

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 1 15:35:36 EST 2009


Phil. 3:2 Βλέπετε τοὺς κύνας, βλέπετε τοὺς  
κακοὺς ἐργάτας, βλέπετε τὴν  
κατατομήν.  3 ἡμεῖς γάρ ἐσμεν ἡ  
περιτομή, οἱ πνεύματι θεοῦ  
λατρεύοντες καὶ καυχώμενοι ἐν Χριστῷ  
Ἰησοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐν σαρκὶ πεποιθότες  
 >>BLEPETE TOUS KUNAS, BLEPETE TOUS KAKOUS ERGATAS, BLEPETE THN  
KATATOMHN.  3 hHMEIS GAR ESMEN hH PERITOMH, hOI PNEUMATI QEOU  
LATREUONTES KAI KAUCWMENOI EN CRISTWi IHSOU KAI OUK EN SARKI  
PEPOIQOTES<<,



N.T. Wright, in his book on Justification (2009) claims that  hH  
PERITOMH is the subject because it has the article. I wonder what both  
traditional grammar and also text linguistics would have to say about  
this.


Elizabeth Kline







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