[B-Greek] Ephesians 2:3 - TEKNA FUSEI ORGHS

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 15:56:39 EDT 2010


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Carl wrote:
>
>  <Does anyone think that FUSEI is intended by the
>  author to be construed with the noun phrase TEKNA ORGHS
>  rather than with the verb of the clause?>
>
> Hi, Carl,
>
> I do.  As you suggested in an earlier post "naturally born sinners."
> "Children by nature" is not redundant because Paul is drawing a contrast
> with the way we are born and what we become--adopted children of God through
> Christ. (Gal 3:26)
>

I wonder whether I take the text with something in ellipsis?

(Pardon my putting into English):

Eph 2:3b  and we were children [who were], in essence, deserving of God’s wrath
       like the rest …

Oun Kwon.



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