Re: 1 Peter 1:3 EIS ELPIDA ZWSAN

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 12 1998 - 19:43:00 EST


At 6:07 PM -0600 1/12/98, Kevin Mullins wrote:
>The participle ZWSAN has no article and yet it seems to be translated as
>if it were attributive. i.e.
>
>unto a living hope ASV
>into a living hope NIV
>into a living hope LATTIMORE
>
>I would like to think it is attributive but if not, could someone help
>me classify the participle into a specific circumstantial use?

ZWSAN surely is attributive here; an article would not make it more or less
attributive but would make it definite: "the living hope."

Carl W. Conrad
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