Re: "Co-workers with God"? - 1 Cor. 3:9

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 10 1999 - 13:58:50 EST


I think this was really intended for the whole list rather than to me
alone. CWC

>From: Blahoslav Cicel <cbmost@iol.cz>
>Reply-To: most@cb.cz
>Organization: Církev bratrská, Most
>To: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
>Subject: Re: "Co-workers with God"? - 1 Cor. 3:9
>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 07:27:19 +0100
>
>
>Bret Hicks wrote: (shortened)
>> >In 1 Corinthians 3:9 Paul says that he and Apollos were
>> >
>> >THEOU ... SUNERGOI
>> >
>> > This is translated y the KJV as "co-workers with God" and more
>> >ambigously by the NIV as "God's co-workers". My question regards the
>> >best way to understand the genitive THEOU. Is is "possesive" in nature,
>> >so that Paul and Apollos are co-laborers who both work together UNDER
>> >(are owned by) God? Or is it to be understood in the sense of the KJV
>> >that they are co-workers WITH God. ...
>
>Carl W. Conrad answered: (shortened)
>> This is perhaps a good time to reiterate one point about the "true"
>> genitive (what in my perversity I have learned to call the "pertinentive")
>> as opposed to the "ablative" and the "partitive": this is a structural case
>> that simply indicates that one substantive depends upon another
>> substantive; ...
>
>> As for QEOU SUNERGOI, whether you prefer to translate it as "God's
>> co-workers", "Co-workers with God", "Co-workers under God" is likely to say
>> a lot more about your own theological preferences than it can ever say
>> about the Greek. ...
>
>It means that the "ambiguos" "God's co-worker" is gramaticaly a very good (may
>be even the best) fit. The greek says nothing more.
>
>But then we ask about: what does it mean? And we have to search that in the
>whole Bible. Uff. 8-(
>
>Blaho, pastor
>Church of Brothers, Most, Czech rep.
>

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