Greetings from a lurker swimming to the surface with a little question! Romans 11:33 reads O BAQOS PLOUTOU KAI SOFIAS KAI GNWSEWS QEOU. Reading from the GNT, I first understood this as 1. O BAQOS = (PLOUTOU QEOU+ SOFIAS QEOU+ GNWSEWS QEOU), but in checking a few translations I notice other interpretations such as 2. O BAQOS PLOUTOU; where PLOUTOU = SOFIAS QEOU + GNWSEWS QEOU. or maybe: 3. O BAQOS (PLOUTOU SOFIAS QEOU) + (PLOUTOU GNWSEWS QEOU) **** 1. NRSV: O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! 2. NASB & NKJV: Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! 3. NIV: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! *** Given the list of genitives joined by KAI, is there anything in the syntax or grammar that favours one structure over the other? Or perhaps something different from the above? For some reason the "both" used in NASB and NKJV seems to puzzle me in particular, as I don't see this arising from the Greek. Thank you for any comments you can send my way. Greg Kilbrai ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup --- 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