Rom. 2:6-8--why nominatives in THAT slot?
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Fri Aug 9 15:23:32 EDT 2002
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:05, c stirling bartholomew wrote:
> on 8/9/02 11:38 AM, Mike Sangrey wrote:
>
> > Rom. 2:6-8
> > hOS APODWSEI hEKASTWi KATA TA ERGA AUTOU
> > TOIS MEN KAQ' hUPOMONHN ERGOU AGAQOU
> > DOXAN KAI TIMHN KAI AFQARSIAN ZHTOUSIN, ZWHN AIWNION:
> > TOIS DE EX ERIQEIAS KAI APEIQOUSI THi ALHQEIAi
> > PEIQOMENOIS DE THi ADIKIAi,ORGH KAI QUMOS
> >
> > Given the parallelism (hopefully highlighted by the formatting) in this
> > text, why are ORGH and QUMOS nominatives? I expected accusatives.
>
> Mike,
>
> It is not a parallel construction. Supply a copula and keep in mind that in
> Greek the copula doesn't need to be explicit.
OK, thanks, but I don't follow you.
By `parallel' I'm referring to the MEN...DE structure. And this
MEN...DE structure expands on the meaning of: hOS APODWSEI hEKASTWi KATA
TA ERGA AUTOU.
So, what we have here without the various pieces of clarifying
information, stripping things down to the grammatical essentials
is:
God will reward one group of people with eternal life;
and another group of people with wrath and anger.
At least that seems to me to be what we have. If that's true, then why
are `wrath' and `anger' nominatives?
--
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
"The first one last wins."
"A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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