[B-Greek] Justify- Diakioun

Tony Pope borikayaama_tekiri at sil.org
Mon May 10 07:24:22 EDT 2010


A more limited claim has been made elsewhere, e.g.,

"A very important variety of the factitive meaning is found in a group of verbs in -OW, derived from
adjectives of _moral_ as distinguished from _physical_ meaning. Here the meaning is _to regard as,
to treat as_, not _to make_. Thus AXIOW (see Lightfoot _Notes on Epp. 105__), DIKAIOW (see Evans ap.
1 Co 6.11 cited by S[anday] and Headlam] _Romans_ 30)."
J H Moulton & W F Howard, A Grammar of New Testament Greek, 1928, 2:397.

This must have been what Barclay meant.

Tony Pope

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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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