[B-Greek] Justify- Diakioun
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Sat May 8 23:25:41 EDT 2010
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From: "Roy Enal" <yarwon at hotmail.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Justify- Diakioun
>
> I was reading William Barclay on Romans and makes a claim for Greek verbs
> ending in "oun".
> He says this.All Greek verbs that end in the -oun mean not to make someone
> something, but to treat , reckon , to account him as something.
>
> MY question without getting into his attempt to clarify what he thinks is
> produced by the application of the justifying work he is referring to, Can
> he make this claim? That all Greek verbs ending thus ( oun) mean to treat
> as righteous rather than make Righteous...
> I understand the point he is making but am left believing he is
> overstepping the Greek in his claim? He is taking his text from Romans 3:
> 19-26
> I do think he may have the spelling wrong
> inserting the Alpha in the wrong place. so probably should
> read....dikaioun
> So any comments would be helpful
For George, p. 57 of his commentary on Romans. The mistransliteration could
easily be some editor who may have been unfamiliar with Greek.
Wow... This would effectively be saying that all omicron-contract verbs have
the implication of "treat, reckon, account as something," and I don't see
that at all. Barclay gives no reference to support this odd claim...
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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