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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011


Wayne's options 2 and 3 were the only ones available. 
Have I missed something.

Regards

David Thiele
Pacific Adventist University

--- Wayne Leman <Wayne_Leman at SIL.ORG> wrote: > 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry W. Jones" <hjbluebird at aol.com>
> >
> >  Dear B-Greekers,
> >
> >  I could use some help on this. Most translations
> that I know of
> > translate this as Jesus having a throne and being
> God. But the New
> > World Translation (no I'm not a Jehovah Witiness)
> translates it as
> > God being the throne without Jesus being God. The
> question is, could
> > this passage be translated the NWT way?
> 
> It looks possible to me that hO QRONOS SOU hO QEOS
> can be translated with
> "God" as either:
> 
> 1. vocative ("your throne, O, God, is forever...",
> as in most English
> versions), or
> 2. nominative subject of an equative construction
> ("God is your throne..."),
> or
> 3. predicate nominative of an equative construction
> ("your throne is God...)
> 
> I just looked in a nice exegetical summary I have of
> Hebrews, written by the
> Greek professor J. Harold Greenlee, and he points
> out the same options. If
> you are commentary counting, option 1 wins, by far,
> but that could be
> attributed to the theology of the commentators.
> 
> I am not Arian, either, but I think that we do need
> to recognize that all 3
> exegetical options are possible here. To me it makes
> better theological
> sense that God would be telling his messianic son
> that his throne will last
> forever, since this seems to be a quote to that
> effect from the OT, and
> there are other Bible passages that speak of the
> eternal throne of the
> messiah.
> 
> But the exegetical options are still there are
> cannot be ruled out purely on
> syntactic or other linguistic grounds, as far as I
> can tell.
> 
> Wayne
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