[B-Greek] It will be done

Steve Miller steve_miller at sil.org
Thu May 20 14:45:05 EDT 2010


Mt 9:29: ???? ????? ??? ???????? ????? ????? ???? ??? ?????? ???? 
???????? ????

I'm very new at Greek, and I've been wrestling with ???????? for a few 
days now. BDAG lists this as an imperative of GINOMAI. Fair enough. But 
the imperative doesn't really come across in any of the English 
translations I've looked at. I would have expected something more like 
"You believe, so be healed." Searching more, BDAG has an entry that 
specifically addresses this verse (bottom of p.197, under sense 4): "w. 
adv. or adv. phrase added.../according to your faith let it be done to 
you/, i.e. /you believe, and you won't be disappointed./ The phrase 
"won't be disappointed" was completely unexpected. Can anyone shed some 
light on this?

Steve



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