Mark 11:22 EXETE PISTIN QEOU

From: Steve Long (steve@allegrographics.com)
Date: Mon Aug 24 1998 - 05:32:17 EDT


B-greekers all,

I'm having a little trouble reading EXETE as an imperative here, and I
would appreciate a lttle feedback. My main difficulty is an imperative
would seem to start the flow of the sentence toward a dative QEW, whereas
the genetive QEOU seems to push the flow of the sentence back toward an
indicative. "You have faith concerning/from God". I know I don't have the
technical language to properly describe the difficulty, but I hope you get
the idea.

---> <---- -------------->
Have faith of God! shouldn't it be EXETE PISTIN QEW

<--------------------
You have faith of God

or perhaps as an inquiry,
<--------------------
Have you faith of God?

Maybe I'm reading too much into the directional qualities of the genitive
and dative cases, but it seems the genitive wants a more passive verb than
an imperative. If I'm making some obvious error, please be gentle (remember
I'm self-taught).

Steve

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