[B-Greek] Ephesians 1:22

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 7 23:05:23 EST 2010


On Mar 7, 2010, at 7:14 PM, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:

> Hey there, I think AUTON is the object of EDWKEN and I would suspect that KEFALHN is an accusative of object compliment. THi EKKLHSIA is not the object of EDWKEN, but an indirect object of the verb. Maybe a dative of advantage. 
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> From: rhutchin at aol.com 
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> Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2010 9:29:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
> Subject: [B-Greek] Ephesians 1:22 
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> We read; 
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> ...KAI AUTON EDWKEN KEFALHN hUPER PANTA THi EKKLHSIAi. 
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> How do the parts of this fit together? 
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> Does KEFALHN hUPER PANTA modify AUTON or is it the object of EDWKEN? 
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> What is the purpose for THi EKKLHSIAi? Is it the object of EDWKEN? 
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> What idea is the writer trying to convey to the reader? The KJV translators added language to try to sort out what is being said but I get the impression that they were not sure what to do with THi EKKLHSIAi.

You should read Iver's article

http://betterbibles.com/2010/03/07/genitives-and-the-semantics-of-love-and-faith/

This doesn't just apply to genitives. For EDWKEN the agent is QEOS, the recipient is AUTON, the patient KEFALHN hUPER PANTA, the direction is THi EKKLHSIAi. 

This approach has many benefits over the "old fashion" Dir-Obj, Indir-Obj, ktl. 


Elizabeth Kline
 






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