hOUTI AUTON ESTIN in the Beatitudes

From: Jeffrey B. Gibson (jgibson000@mailhost.chi.ameritech.net)
Date: Fri Jul 10 1998 - 12:59:44 EDT


Friends,

I am reading through a booklet by Brad Young on _The Jewish Background
to the Lord's Prayer_ in which Young makes the claim that hOTI AUTON
ESTIN at Matt. 5:3 etc. should be seen as a partitive genitive and not
as a possessive. If true, the beatitudes containing this phrase would
seemingly mean "How blesssed are X, the Kingdom of God is comprised of
such as these". Any thoughts on this?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson

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