2 Cor 5:21 anarthrous nouns
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Re: 2 Cor 5:21 anarthrous nouns
I separated your post from the old thread and moved it here in the hopes that it would get better attention. I'll let someone else talk about why they may be anarthrous, but it makes the point rhetorically stronger to use the nouns instead of adjectives. The adjectives would, I think, also mean something quite different. He didn't become sinful, he became sin. I hesitate to say more because I want to avoid theologizing, as tempting as it is to do so here.
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Re: 2 Cor 5:21 anarthrous nouns
τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν is very marked and introduces a topical frame for the whole verse. In the second line, ἡμεῖς is the topical frame for the purpose clause.2 Cor 5:21 wrote:τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν,ἵνα ἡμεῖς γενώμεθα δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ.
I would like to avoid theology here, people whose theology of the cross is about substitution, identification, or sacrifice can each read what they want into this passage. It's worth mentioning one other possibility: ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν might possibly mean "he made a sin offering", as in Leviticus 5:12:
Leviticus 5:12 wrote:καὶ οἴσει αὐτὸ πρὸς τὸν ἱερέα. καὶ δραξάμενος ὁ ἱερεὺς ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς πλήρη τὴν δράκα, τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῆς ἐπιθήσει ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τῶν ὁλοκαυτωμάτων κυρίῳ· ἁμαρτία ἐστίν.
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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