At 9:44 AM -0600 12/10/97, John Reece wrote: >Rolf & Carl, > >Please tell me if you think the following two sources are definitely and >unquestionably wrong: > >Max Zerwick, 1966, _A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament_, >page 621, "hOLOKLHROS entire, complete, whole, hOLOKLHRON hUMWN your >entirity, the whole of you; subject of THRHQEIH." > >Harold K. Moulton, 1977, _The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised_, page >287, "hOLOKLHROS,......in N.T. the whole, 1 Thes. 5.23". "Definitely and unquestionably" are pretty strong words, but I'll stick with the argument that Rolf suggested and that I supported, that hOMOKLHRON here is predicative and adjectival. I note that Accordance also lists it as a noun, but I nevertheless really think it is an adjective, agreeing, to be sure, with the first neuter subject PNEUMA, but nevertheless used predicatively, i.e., adverbially. Here's what Louw and Nida say: 59.30 hOLOKLHROS, ON: a totality, with special emphasis upon the entity as a whole - 'whole, entire.' KAI HOLOKLHRON hUMWN TO PNEUMA KAI hH YUCH KAI TO SWMA AMEMPTWS ... THRHQEIH 'and may he keep É your entire being, spirit, soul, and body, without blame' 1Th 5:23. In a number of languages it may be difficult to speak of 'your entire being.' A substitute expression in 1Th 5:23 may be 'yourselves as one person.' 0000,7777,0000What I believe they are doing here is offering a translation in good English, reversing the subject and the Greek passive to an English active construction, yet the last entry there, 'yourselves as one person', does, I think, view the construction as Rolf and I have argued it.