[B-Greek] Back to Eph. 2:8
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat May 14 22:55:53 EDT 2011
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I suppose if we understood it as the dative of means, then grace would become
> the medium of God, and faith would become the medium of man in salvation. Does
> the fact that CARITI is articular give us any indication which sense of the
> dative the writer is trying to communicate? It seems if it was anarthrous one
> would understand it to be more a dative of cause, whereas with the articular it
> would be more likely to be understood as the dative of means.
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> Blue Harris
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Rather than dealing with abstract nouns of concept, it is simple and
straightforward to understand if these are put into the corresponding
action verbs. GRACE -- to give; FAITH -- to believe. God gives; we
believe. Cause? Means? Basis? We don't have to worry about these of
artificial grammatical metalanguage, do we?
Oun Kwon.
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