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.