AUTOU modifies ERGA; ERGA is the subject of ESTIN EIRGASMENA (n.pl. subject
with singular verb--but plural participle in the periphrastic perfect
tense); ERGA is also the subject of FANERWQHi (n.pl. subject again);
EIRGASMENA is the participial part of the periphrastic perfect ESTIN
EIRGASMENA,it does agree with ERGA. If the sentence were rephrased in a
more-nearly natural English, it would be: "so that they may be made
evident, (that is) his works, that they (his work) have been brought to
completion in/by God." I also would take that EN + dative as the
not-untypical Hellenistic use of EN with instrumental dative.
>Looking at the Latin [the other side of the page <grin>] I see that the phrase
>means "so that his [her] works might be manifested, that are done in God", but
>the word order is really throwing me. Help??
The Latin is right, but it doesn't repeat the subject, as English would
require inthat last clause: "that (they) are done in God." I take it that
the Latin is FACTA SUNT, which is really "that (they) have been done in
God."
I hope this helps.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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