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by rhutchin
January 8th, 2013, 2:23 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Acts 13:48 - Subordinate Clause
Replies: 15
Views: 5817

Re: Acts 13:48 - Subordinate Clause

Well, I can't tell just by looking at it whether ἡσαν τεταγμενοι is a passive or middle. The middle-passive form means that the subject was affected (i.e. was the patient or theme of this verb) but it does not say anything about the agent. Here again, I fear the temptation is too great to go beyond...
by rhutchin
January 8th, 2013, 9:10 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Acts 13:48 - Subordinate Clause
Replies: 15
Views: 5817

Re: Acts 13:48 - Subordinate Clause

Note the Middle Voice here: και ἐπιστευσαν ὁσοι ἡσαν τεταγμενοι εἰσζην αἰωνιον There are better English words and phrases to capture the sense of ἡσαν τεταγμενοι than appointed . One wooden translation is: They put/arranged/positioned themselves into an orderly formation . This I believe captures t...
by rhutchin
January 7th, 2013, 8:48 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Acts 13:48 - Subordinate Clause
Replies: 15
Views: 5817

Acts 13:48 - Subordinate Clause

Acts 13:48 includes this: και ἐπιστευσαν ὁσοι ἡσαν τεταγμενοι εἰσζην αἰωνιον Someone explained this verse thusly, "οσοι (all who, a subgroup of a previously identified main group) introduces a subordinate clause, but "believed" is in the main clause. In the subordinate clause (includi...
by rhutchin
December 30th, 2012, 11:07 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Romans 8:29 - ὁτι οὑς προεγνω
Replies: 3
Views: 1852

Romans 8:29 - ὁτι οὑς προεγνω

The phrase - ὁτι οὑς προεγνω - appears in Romans 8:29. Without regard to context, how would one understand προεγνω as singular indicative aorist active. Would it normally refer to some unique individual (or group) who lived in the past? Can the surrounding context (not Romans 8:29, necessarily, unle...
by rhutchin
October 3rd, 2012, 2:08 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Hebrews 10:29
Replies: 1
Views: 793

Hebrews 10:29

Hebrews 10:29 πόσῳ δοκειτε χείρονος ἀξιωθήσεται τιμωρίας ὁ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ καταπατήσας καὶ τὸ αῖμα τῆς διαθήκης κοινὸν ἡγησάμενος ἐν ᾡ ἡγιὰσθη και τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς χάριτος ἐνυβρίσασ. To what does ἐν ᾡ ἡγιὰσθη refer and why? Does it refer to Christ so that we would understand, "...wherewith Chris...
by rhutchin
October 3rd, 2012, 1:47 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Phil 1:9 - το
Replies: 15
Views: 5579

Re: Phil 1:29 - το

I guess only Carl saw that this was actually Phil 1:29. Anyway, Paul could have said simply: ὅτι ὑμῖν ἐχαρίσθη οὐ μόνον πιστεύειν ἀλλὰ καὶ πάσχειν Yet he adds the three phrases. τὸ ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ τὸ εἰς αὐτὸν τὸ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ So, why does Paul begin each phrase with τὸ? Is there a grammatical rule involv...
by rhutchin
September 20th, 2012, 1:16 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Phil 1:9 - το
Replies: 15
Views: 5579

Phil 1:9 - το

Phil 1:9

ὸτι ὺμιν έχαρισθη το ὺπερ χριστου ού μονον το είς αύτον πιστευειν άλλα και το ὺπερ αύτον ασχειν

What is the purpose for το in the three instances in which it is used above - linked to χριστου in each case?

Would it make a difference if το had been omitted?

Roger Hutchinson
by rhutchin
September 7th, 2012, 3:01 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: John 1:9
Replies: 7
Views: 3123

Re: John 1:9

Dean (and anyone else), So, grammatically, there is nothing wrong with the construction of the sentence? I don't know that I am the typical English reader, but I tend to read in a straight line so that I see modifiers immediately following that which they modify. However, in Greek, one has a certain...
by rhutchin
September 5th, 2012, 2:59 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: John 1:9
Replies: 7
Views: 3123

John 1:9

John 1:9-10 9 Ήν το φως το άληθινον ὸ φωτιζει παντα άνθρωπον έρχομενον εις τον κοσμον 10 έν τῳ κοσμῳ ἠν ... Translators take this verse two different ways. They are: 1. That was the true light, which lighteth every man coming into the world; and 2. That was the true light which, coming into the worl...
by rhutchin
August 27th, 2012, 4:09 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: ὶνα πας ὸ πιστευων
Replies: 19
Views: 10240

Re: ὶνα πας ὸ πιστευων

So, where you have "the [one] who believes," this should be "the (one) believing" and "πας ο πιστευων" would then mean "every [one] believing" or "every believer." "every one believing" is not correct English, and is not easily understood ...

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