[B-Greek] Ephesians 2:3 - TEKNA FUSEI ORGHS
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Mar 30 16:06:45 EDT 2010
On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:
> 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 …
Why do that when you have HMEQA "we were" already present? But in any case,
you too seem to think that FUSEI needs to function adverbially.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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