[B-Greek] Fwd: Ephesians 2:1-3
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 24 15:36:42 EDT 2009
On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> There is nothing weird here, as "Pauline" verbiage goes this passage
> is relatively well formed. ONTAS ... hAMARTIAIS hUMWN represents
> an on going state of affairs. The time element is indicated by POTE
> in EN hAIS POTE PERIEPATHSATE ... ANESTRAFHMEN POTE
Eph. 2:1 Καὶ ὑμᾶς ὄντας νεκροὺς τοῖς
παραπτώμασιν καὶ ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις
ὑμῶν, 2 ἐν αἷς ποτε περιεπατήσατε
κατὰ τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ κόσμου τούτου,
κατὰ τὸν ἄρχοντα τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ
ἀέρος, τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ νῦν
ἐνεργοῦντος ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς
ἀπειθείας· 3 ἐν οἷς καὶ ἡμεῖς
πάντες ἀνεστράφημέν ποτε ἐν ταῖς
ἐπιθυμίαις τῆς σαρκὸς ἡμῶν
ποιοῦντες τὰ θελήματα τῆς σαρκὸς
καὶ τῶν διανοιῶν, καὶ ἤμεθα τέκνα
φύσει ὀργῆς ὡς καὶ οἱ λοιποί· 4 ὁ
δὲ θεὸς πλούσιος ὢν ἐν ἐλέει, διὰ
τὴν πολλὴν ἀγάπην αὐτοῦ ἣν
ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, 5 καὶ ὄντας ἡμᾶς
νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν
συνεζωοποίησεν τῷ Χριστῷ, - χάριτί
ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι -
EPH. 2:1 KAI hUMAS ONTAS NEKROUS TOIS PARAPTWMASIN KAI TAIS hAMARTIAIS
hUMWN, 2 EN hAIS POTE PERIEPATHSATE KATA TON AIWNA TOU KOSMOU TOUTOU,
KATA TON ARCONTA THS EXOUSIAS TOU AEROS, TOU PNEUMATOS TOU NUN
ENERGOUNTOS EN TOIS hUIOIS THS APEIQEIAS: 3 EN hOIS KAI hHMEIS PANTES
ANESTRAFHMEN POTE EN TAIS EPIQUMIAIS THS SARKOS hHMWN POIOUNTES TA
QELHMATA THS SARKOS KAI TWN DIANOIWN, KAI HMEQA TEKNA FUSEI ORGHS hWS
KAI hOI LOIPOI: 4 hO DE QEOS PLOUSIOS WN EN ELEEI, DIA THN POLLHN
AGAPHN AUTOU hHN HGAPHSEN hHMAS, 5 KAI ONTAS hHMAS NEKROUS TOIS
PARAPTWMASIN SUNEZWOPOIHSEN TWi CRISTWi, - CARITI ESTE SESWiSMENOI -
> There is nothing weird here ...
When I read this passage this morning, I had been looking at patterns
of ellipsis in Ajax. "Sophocles can be startlingly elliptic." John
Tipton (Ajax 2008, p. 106). "Paul's" broken construction in Eph 2:1-5
didn't seem very hard to understand, lots of subordination, but the
general drift of his thought wasn't difficult. Some supply a verb from
chapter one, others take SUNEZWOPOIHSEN v5 as the main verb. The
thread of thought wanders a little bit in the relative clauses but is
picked up again either at hO DE QEOS PLOUSIOS ... or at ONTAS hHMAS
NEKROUS.
Elizabeth Kline
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