[B-Greek] Rm. 13:3b: "QELEIS..."
Nikolaos Adamou
nikolaos.adamou at hotmail.com
Fri May 29 14:01:06 EDT 2009
Tischendorf 8th Ed as well as Greek Orthodox are with a question mark BUT not Westcott/Hort in
http://www.biblos.com/romans/13-3.htm
The question mark is an interpretation of the text.
Mark is right!
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:25:22 -0700
> From: lightmanmark at yahoo.com
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org; AJB1212 at ono.com
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Rm. 13:3b: "QELEIS..."
>
> You are very observant to notice this. You're right, all the translations I checked
> construe it as a question, and the Greek texts of Westcott/Hort, Fodges, and
> Robinsom/Pierpont punctuate it as a question. Only NA27/UBS3 has it as
> a statement, followed by Zondervan's RGNT. NA 27/UBS3 does not even have
> a note. Even the Modern Greek, though carrying no more evidentiary weight than
> any other translation, construes it as a question: QELEIS ESU NA MH FOBASAI
> THN EXOUSIA;
>
> Of course, the minority view can be correct. But QELEIS X? meaning
> X seems to be an established idiom in rhetoric. Cf. James 2:20
> QELEIS DE GNWMAI Wi ANQRWPE KENE, hOTI H PISTIS
> XWPIS TWN ERGWN ARGH ESTIN? In both cases I would
> say the sentence is a question more in tone than anything else.
>
> Mark L.
>
> --- On Fri, 5/29/09, A. J. Birch <AJB1212 at ono.com> wrote:
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>
> From: A. J. Birch <AJB1212 at ono.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Rm. 13:3b: "QELEIS..."
> To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 12:15 AM
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>
> "?? ??? ???????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ????? ???? ???? ?? ????. ?????? ?? ?? ????????? ??? ????????· ?? ?????? ????? ??? ????? ??????? ?? ?????·" (Romans 13:3)
>
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> "hOI GAR ARCONTES OUK EISIN FOBOS TWi AGAQWi ERGWi ALLA TWi KAKWi. QELEIS DE MH FOBEISQAI THN EXOUSIAN· TO AGAQON POIEI, KAI hEXEIS EPAINON EX AUTHS·" (Romans 13:3)
>
> My question is about the phrase, "QELEIS DE MH FOBEISQAI THN EXOUSIAN·": all the Bible-versions I've consulted treat this phrase as a question, but my Greek text punctuates it as a statement; is there any GRAMMATICAL basis for either of these 'readings'?
>
> Thankyou,
>
> Andrew J. Birch
> Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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