Re: Help with Col. 1:24

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 06 1995 - 17:21:03 EST


At 12:43 PM 12/6/95, Jim Beale wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm stuck. Col 1:24 reads in part:
>
> NU=N XAI/RW E)N TOI=S PAQH/MASIN U(PE\R U(MW=N
>
>As I understand it:
>
> PAQH/MASIN is dative plural.
> U(MW=N is 2nd person genitive plural.
>
>Why does the NAS translate this:
>
> Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake
>
>If someone asked me right now how I would translate this, I would
>say:
>
> Now I rejoice in your abundant sufferings
>
>That doesn't seem right! I'm sure I've missed something...

You have indeed missed something! hUPER is a preposition normally construed
with the genitive and meaning (most of the time, when it's not "over" in a
spatial sense) "on behalf of," or "for the sake of."

Carl W. Conrad
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