[B-Greek] The relative pronouns in Ephesians 6:17 and Revelation 5:8
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 21:26:03 EDT 2010
2010/10/14 Leonard Jayawardena <leonardj at live.com>:
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> PNEUMATOS is not even a possible antecedent for the relative because construing the relative with PNEUMATOS would make THN MACAIRAN TOU PNEUMATOS equivalent to "the sword of the word of God." To make any sense of that, you have to take TOU PNEUMATOS adjectivally, in which case the phrase means "the-word-of-God sword." But when the relative clause is addded, we have "the-word-of-God sword, which is the word of God" (!), which is nonsense.
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> Leonard Jayawardena
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I take hO ESTIN hRHMA QEOU to be construed to both 'THN MACAIRAN TOU
PNEUMATOS and THN PERIKEFALAIAN TOU SWTHRIOU DEXASQE.
"take God's utterance as the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit'
Thematically it sounds reasonable. I like to see KAI connecting the
two phrases just add a reprise of the same idea.
Please correct me.
Oun Kwon.
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