[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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