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

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Mar 1 20:30:23 EST 2009


On Mar 1, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> 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.


Speaking only for traditional grammar, I would question why the verb  
is 1 pl. if the subject is hH PERITOMH. For that matter, I'd also ask  
why we have the emphatic pronoun hHMEIS at the front and why all the  
apparently appositional substantival nominative plural participles.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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