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-- Lee R. Martin Part-Time Instructor in Hebrew and Biblical Studies Church of God Theological Seminary Cleveland, TN 37311 Pastor, Prospect Church of God--------------6B9B310B5831 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
Message-ID: <330C7A76.7F17@voyageronline.net> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:23:18 -0800 From: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin@voyageronline.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Romans 7:21 TWi QELONTI EMOI, TON NOMON References: <v03101702af30fa0851dd@[128.252.101.241]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Carl W. Conrad wrote: > > At 11:56 AM -0600 2/19/97, Jonathan Robie wrote: > >I'm still throwing inkpots at participles, but I've gotten through Romans 7, > >and I think I now understand most of it pretty well > > Do participles become better participles for having inkpots thrown at them? > (Fear not, I DO recognize the allusion). > > >(thanks for all your > >help, folks!). I have one remaining grammatical question, this time on > >Romans 7:21: > > > >Romans 7:21 hEURISKW ARA TON NOMON, TWi QELONTI EMOI POIEIN TO KALON, hOTI > >EMOI TO KAKON PARAKEITAI > > > >Zerwick translates TWi QELONTI EMOI "when I want". > > This is the meaning, but it's not literal, of course. > > >I don't know if I > >understand the grammar well enough to follow this. Can I think of this as > >"to me, [who is] wanting to do good", or is there something else I should > >understand here? > > Yes, precisely. >
Is it possible that TWi QELONTI EMOI could be construed as a dative (locative, a la Robertson) of time? Thus, the translation "when."
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