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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