I am analyzing a translation to revise it potentially. In Rom 1:6 it renders KLHTOI IHSOU, which some translations (ESV, NET) render as "called to belong to Jesus." Rom 1:7 renders KLHTOIS (AGIOIS as "called to be saints." To me that introduces an implicit condition into the phrase that the Greek does not present. It suggests, I think, something like, "You are called to be saints, if you live up to that calling." I think the NASU's rendering "the called of Jesus" for KLHTOI IHSOU and "called as saints," or perhaps, based on p. 149, "the called who are saints," for KLHTOIS (AGIOIS) is better. Wallace (GGBB, 126) treats constructs like that of Rom 1:t as a gen. of agency, so it would be "called by Jesus," though he notes on p. 127 that there are arguments against this translation and that it could instead be a possessive gen., "called to belong to Jesus." I am aware that Greek has verbless clauses where some form of EIMI may be supplied but that is usually between two nominatives, not a nominative and a genitive. The ESV and NET renderings seem to me to go beyond what is appropriate for a translation. What do others thing? Thanks.
Ken Litwak
Adjunct Professor of New Testament
Azusa Pacific University
