[B-Greek] 2 Peter 1:20 and context

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sat May 29 08:41:11 EDT 2010


Kimmo egrapse:

<TI hUMIN DOKEI?>

χαιρε ω Κιμμω

It seems to me that if Carl is correct that this is a predicate genitive and if
Robertson is correct that this is an ablative of source and if Douay-Rheims is correct
to render this "no prophecy of scripture is made BY private interpretation,"
then in this sentence, EPILUSIS could have been in the nominative or the genitive
or the dative without affecting the fundamental meaning.  Which leads me to conclude
that this is a Genitive Filling In For the Accusative of Respect. 

I once used the word EPILUSIS in composing a song.  See if you can Name that Tune:

οντος μου εν αποριᾳ
Μητηρ Μαρια ερχεται
λαλων τα σοφια
γενοιτο.
γενοιτο γενοιτο γενοιτο γενοιτο
εσται επιλυσις
γενοιτο

ONTOS MOU EN APORIAi
MHTHP MARIA ERCETAI
LALWN TA SOFIA
GENOITO
GENOITO GENOITO GENOITO GENOITO
ESTAI EPILUSIS
GENOITO



 Mark Light(FWS)man(FWS)



FWSFOROS MARKOS




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From: Kimmo Huovila <kimmo.huovila at kolumbus.fi>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 2:36:31 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] 2 Peter 1:20 and context

Could the whole thought be paraphrased as "no prophesy is ever a matter of the 
prophet's personal resolution/interpretation (of God's will/message), but they 
spoke words from God as they are being carried along (inspired) by the Holy 
Spirit"? In other words, never is a prophesy the result of the prophets 
interpretation but rather it is given by inspiration. This is an attempt to 
combine Iver's point about the relationship between the two verses and Carl's 
point about the lack of preposition.

TI hUMIN DOKEI?

Kimmo Huovila

On torstai 27 toukokuu 2010, Carl Conrad wrote:
> I really think that GINETAI is more a copula than a verb of generation, and 
I
> think that IDIAS EPILUSEWS must be a predicate genitive: "isn't ever a
> matter of personal resolution/interpretation." I don't think there's any 
parallel 
> of GINETAI with FERW and LALEW and I don't think that IDIAS EPILUSEWS
> as a genitive phrase without a preposition can have an instrumental sense. I 
just
> don't think that IDIAS EPILUSEWS OU GINETAI is at all parallel to hUPO 
> PNEUMATOS hAGIOU FEROMENOI ELALHSAN APO QEOU ANQRWPOI.

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