Re: Gal 2:20 - to the Son

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 09:11:50 EDT


At 3:12 AM -0400 4/29/00, Suedaleg@aol.com wrote:
>Hello
>
>I have been working on Galatians in my personal time and have come upon a few
>structure puzzles. The latest, and a stumper to me, is in 2:20. There we
>read EN PISTEI ZW THi TOU hUIOU TOU QEOU. To what does the article THi
>(dative/locative fem sing) refer? It seems to have no antecedent in this
>structure. The NKJV translates the verse as though it reads TWi hUIWi. I
>would prefer to read it :in faith I live to the ???? of the Son of God . . .

THi refers back to PISTEI (fem. dat. sg.); the effect of this construction
is to attach the genitive phrase TOU hUIOU TOU QEOU attributively to EN
PISTEI. While semantically it is equivalent to ZW EN THi TOU hUIOU TOU QEOU
PISTEI, yet the rhetorical effect of the later placement is to make it
almost a clarifying appositive, so that it could be conveyed in English as,
"By faith I live--faith, that is, in/of God's Son." Of course, whether TOU
hUIOU TOU QEOU is subjective or objective genitive is a different question
altogether; in terms of the grammar either is possible and intelligible.

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