[B-Greek] Fwd: Ephesians 2:1-3

John Butzu jbutzu at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 10:48:13 EDT 2009


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From: John Butzu <jbutzu at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Subject: Ephesians 2:1-3
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org


Hello.  Could someone please explain to me why in Ephesians 2:1 the greek
word ONTAS is translated as being in the past tense when it seems to be
present as such.  Should it not read something like: "And you, being dead in
trespasses"... etc.

Also, with addition of the second "you" (hUMWN) would that be correctly
translated as "and *you* being dead in *your* trespasses and in
*your*sins"?  Sorry if these questions don't require alot of mental
exertion to
answer... I'm just trying to learn!

Lastly, it seems to me that Ephesians 2:1-3 is quite weird in to read in the
greek... kind of a long fragmented or run on sentence.  Do you think that
was why translators added in different tranlations (KJV, etc.) "hath he
quickened"?

Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
John Butzu

jbutzu at gmail.com



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