From: dixonps@juno.com
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 19:58:30 EST
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:05:27 -0500 ". callee" <callee@canoemail.com>
writes:
> Hello,
> This is my first post, so please excuse any oddities. I'm wondering
> if any of you can help me out with a real basic question. In Gal
> 2:20 there seems to be an extra article that I am not sure what to
> do
> with. In the second half of the verse, we have a nice little
> chiasm,
> verb, prep. phrase, prep. phrase, verb (zw en sarki en pistei zw),
> which is sensibly followed by an instrumental genative, (tou uiou
> tou
> theou) In between however, is this odd dative article. It seems to
> be attached to nothing, there is not even a suitable noun preceeding
> it that it could be referring to as a pronoun (and even if it was,
> how would we translate that in light of the genative?). In short, I
> cannot see what to do with this. Any ideas?
> Thanks.
> Ryan Wettlaufer
> South-Hamilton, MA.
My initial reaction is to take THi as an anaphoric article referring back
to the preceding XRISTWi, then take TOU hIOU TOU QEOU as a genitive of
apposition. Hence, "I live by faith in Christ, the Son of God."
That, or take the definite article pleonastically, "I live by faith in
the Son of God."
Hmm, this should be an interesting discussion.
Paul Dixon
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