I was reading GGBB by Wallace in regards to Gal. 5:16. The verse in Greek reads: PNEUMATI PERIPATEITE KAI EPIQUMIAN SARKOS OU MH TELESHTE He argues against taking PNEUMATI as dat. of agency for two reasons: "(1) This usage is quite rare in the NT (unless, of course, we assume that PNEUMATI on many occasions belongs here!); (2) PNEUMATI does not occur with a passive verb, let along a perfect passive; yet every clear example of dat. of agency in the NT occurs with a perfect passive verb" (GGBB, 165-6). What do you make of this discussion? I made a cursory check of PNEUMATI in the NT and found it with several passive verbs (e.g. Rom. 8:14; Gal. 5:18; Eph. 1:13), which seems to disagree with Wallace's statement. Thanks, Jonathan Boyd ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu