It looks like a dangling accusative (not that there is any formal
category by that name). Paul (I take him for the author) begins the
sentence with the idea that those who were dead in Christ have been raised
up to life in Him, but he doesn't complete the idea until v. 5 where he
restates it as KAI ONTAS hEMAS NEKROUS TOIS PARAPTWMASIN SUNEZWOPOIHSEN TWi
CRISTWi.... What intervenes is a description of the dead state of those who
are without Christ (vv. 2, 3) and an explanation of the agency of the mercy
and love of God (v. 4) in the vivification of believers. When Paul finally
gets around to the action for which the accusative hUMAS (v. 1) is referent,
he restates the accusative pronoun in the 1st-person singular: KAI ONTAS
hHMAS... all of this constitutes a grammatical anomaly but is, nevertheless,
understandable.
David L. Moore Director
Miami, Florida, USA Department of Education
dvdmoore@ix.netcom.com Southeastern Spanish District
http://members.aol.com/dvdmoore of the Assemblies of God