Bill Ross wrote:I'm not sure if I was understood concerning what my theory is, so let me be more clear...
This is a question, not a statement:
τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν <-- the subject - God
ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν <-- "concerning us"
ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν <-- the action... "commited an offense"
ἵνα ἡμεῖς γενώμεθα <--in order that we might become/make ourselves
δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ <-- God's righteousness (not the Christ's)
ἐν αὐτῷ. <-- by his agency
"Did the one not knowing sin [God] commit an offense in order that we might become God's righteousness by his agency?"
This is very helpful - and would probably be a great format to use for this kind of question, since what we're discussing is really about the detailed structure of the text.
Here's the first thing I wonder about:
τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν <-- the subject - God
The subject of what? Of the main verb, ἐποίησεν? The subject of ἐποίησεν would not be accusative, it would be nominative. But τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν has to be the object of something, and there's only one verb that will do the trick: ἐποίησεν.
Bill Ross wrote:The normal way that this is taken, the main verb has a double accusative:
* τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν
* and ἁμαρτίαν
ie: " [God] made the not knowing sin [to be] sin"
Right - so when you see something like this, turn to BDAG first to see if the verb ποιέω is used in "double accusative" constructions. I don't have a machine readable version of BDAG, so I can't paste it in here, but it is used in this way.
Here's one example:
Matthew 4:19 καὶ ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων.- "I will make you fishers of men".
Both the object ὑμᾶς ("you") and the predicate ἁλιεῖς ("fishers") are accusative. Compare that to this slightly rewritten version of the 2 Corinthians verse we're looking at:
ἐποίησεν - τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν - ἁμαρτίαν
"he made - the one who did not know sin - sin"
ἐποίησεν - "He made"
τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν - object: the one who did not know sin
ἁμαρτίαν - predicate: sin
Incidentally,
Funk has some interesting ideas on why this is accusative, he thinks there's an implied infinitive γενέσθαι at work here.
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(3) ποιήσω / ὑμᾶς / ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων Mt 4:19
I shall make you fishers of men
(4) ποιήσω / ὑμᾶς / γενέσθαι / ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων Mk 1:17
I shall make you (to become) fishers of men
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