[b-greek] Re: PRWTON in Rom 1.16

From: c stirling bartholomew (cc.constantine@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 17:39:49 EST


on 2/17/02 9:34 PM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:

> Rom 1.16: OU GAR EPAISCUNOMAI TO EUAGGELION, DUNAMIS GAR QEOU ESTIN EIS
> SWTHRIAN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI, IOUDAIWi TE PRWTON KAI hELLHNI.
>
> I get Paul's gist here, but I'm trying to get a handle on exactly what the
> adverb PRWTON is modifying. There has to be some sort of ellipsis, but what
> is it?

Steven,

Having read Carl's and Moon's comments I will suggest an alternative
approach.

ROM. 1:16 OU GAR EPAISCUNOMAI TO EUAGGELION, DUNAMIS GAR QEOU ESTIN EIS
SWTHRIAN PANTI TW PISTEUONTI, IOUDAIW TE PRWTON KAI ELLHNI.

Let's expand this into three parallel constructions:


DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI
[DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN] IOUDAIW . . . PRWTON
[DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN] ELLHNI


Perhaps this shows the "ellipsis" (in brackets) Steven asked about. Using
this expanded form, one might be tempted to see PRWTON as limiting the the
entire expression [DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN].

As the text stands in the GNT (w/o the expansions), IOUDAIW is a subset of
TWi PISTEUONTI. ELLHNI is also a subset TWi PISTEUONTI. The first statement
DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI states the global
formula, and IOUDAIW/ELLHNI make specific distinctions within the global
statement. PRWTON makes a further distinction between the 2nd and third
statements.

So we might see this as semantic hierarchy (top down):

(level one) DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI
(level two) IOUDAIWi TE . . . KAI hELLHNI
(level three) IOUDAIW . . . PRWTON

Anyway, this is another way to represent this text.

greetings,

Clay

--
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062



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