Re: Rom. 1:4 EN DUNAMEI adverbial or adjectival

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 15 1998 - 11:24:35 EDT


At 8:00 AM -0700 7/15/98, dalmatia@eburg.com wrote:
>Jonathan Robie wrote:
>>
>> At 09:29 AM 7/13/98 -0700, dalmatia@eburg.com wrote:
>> >Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>> >
>> >> (1) Paul's interpretation of the phrase which he cites from Hab 2:4 as hO
>> >> DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS ZHSETAI--and which I think ought properly to be
>> >> construed by taking EK PISTEWS with ZHSETAI--certainly appears to be
>> >> understood by Paul in Rom 1:17ff in such a way that EK PISTEWS functions
>> >> adjectivally with hO DIKAIOS.
>> >
>> >When a modifier lies between two terms like this [here between the
>> >subject and the verb], I have always taken it to 'distribute' to
>> >[modify] both, unless otherwise contraindicated. Why does it have to
>> >be one or the other?
>>
>> Are you saying that hO DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS ZHSETAI means "those who are
>> righteous by faith shall live by faith"? Can you give examples of other
>> places where this kind of construction should be translated this way?
>
>No, I'm saying that the literal translation ~ "But the righteous out
>of faith shall be living," is pretty good.

Except that by ordinary rules of syntax that translation isn't allowable:
it should be "The righteous (one) will lives out of (as a result of) faith."

>The reason is because it does not attach EK PISTEWS to either term,
>but allows it to modify hO DE DIKAIOS ZHSETAI as a whole unit of
>discourse. [And not to each term separately, as your query
>indicates.] It seems that we have been wanting to pigeon hole it to
>either hO DIKAIOS or to ZHSETAI only, and I believe by so doing we err
>~ But I am certainly open to being wrong...

As I've said previously, unless EK PISTEWS is specifically attached to hO
DIKAIOS by a repeated article, so that it reads hO DIKAIOS hO EK PISTEWS,
then EK PISTEWS ought to construe ONLY with ZHSETAI.

Carl W. Conrad
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