Rom 5:15 ἐν χάριτι τῇ τοῦ ἕνὸς ἄνθρωπου
Posted: August 7th, 2012, 10:30 pm
Chris Tilling on his Chrisendom blog has a post about the Greek of Rom 5:25. Tilling is asking about the role of the dative article τῇ following χάριτι, but I want to ask a different question.
We have just had an earlier thread, The Adjectival Use of Prepositional Phrases, where the claim was made that post-nominal prepositional phrases are only adjectival if preceded by the article.
Thoughts?
Usually, this verse is construed by taking the bold preposition phrase to modify ἡ δωρεά, yielding a translation like "... how much more has the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of one person Jesus Christ abound to the many," but I'm wondering if the that preposition phrase is adverbial, so that it would mean something like "... how much has God's grace and gift abounded to the many in/by the grace of the one person Jesus Christ."Rom 5:15 wrote:Ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὡς τὸ παράπτωμα, οὕτως καὶ τὸ χάρισμα· εἰ γὰρ τῷ τοῦ ἑνὸς παραπτώματι οἱ πολλοὶ ἀπέθανον, πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι τῇ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐπερίσσευσεν.
We have just had an earlier thread, The Adjectival Use of Prepositional Phrases, where the claim was made that post-nominal prepositional phrases are only adjectival if preceded by the article.
Thoughts?