Chuck: Eph 5:33 appears to summarize the exhortations of verses 22-32 with 33a summarizing verses 25-32 and 33b summarizing 22-24. This, coupled with the imperatival parallel AGAPATW, almost requires we take hINA QOBHTAI imperativally. I prefer something like: let each husband so love his own wife, as he loves himself; but let the wife see to it that she revere her husband. The idea for the wife is that she is to revere (fear) her husband in the same way as the church fears or reverences the Lord (22-24). Paul Dixon On Mon, 28 May 2001 22:06:58 -0800 "Chuck Tripp" writes: > This text is a familiar one to me in English and I was surprised to > see how > it is expressed in the greek. I am familiar with the NIV > translation which > says "... and the wife must respect her husband...." Essentially > expressed > as an imperative. The Greek goes like this: > > PLHN KAI hUMEIS hOI HAQ'hENA, hEKASTOS THN hEAUTOU GUNAIKA hOUTWS > AGAPATW > hWS hEAUTON, hH DE GUNH hINA FOBHTAI TON ANDRA. > > I quoted the whole verse because it may be relevant to what caught > my eye. > What is rendered as a quasi-imperative in the NIV is expressed as a > hINA + > subjunctive, which sounds a whole lot less forceful than it is > rendered in > the NIV. The other thing is that there is no verb preceeding the > hINA so > either it is somehow dependent on the imperative that is expressed > to the > man (THN hEAUTOU GUNAIKA...AGAPATW) or is to be otherwise understood > by the > reader. My guess is that the DE following hH makes the final part > of the > verse grammatically independent of the imperative to the man. That > would > mean that the reader must supply the verb preceding hINA. > > Any ideas as to what that might be? Also, I am curious how hINA + > subjunctive winds up being translated as a must do in the NIV. > Would a > greek hearer understand that much force in that sentence? I would > be > curious to hear any other comments anyone might have on that > sentence > construction. Is the hINA +subjunctive in anyway dependent on the > imperative given to the man? I kind of doubt it but I was curious > if anyone > thought that there was. > > Chuck Tripp > Kodiak, Alaska > > > --- > B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek > You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [dixonps@juno.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 > > Dr. Paul S. Dixon, Pastor Evangelical Free Church Iowa Falls, IA http://members.aol.com/dixonps --- 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