> In I Peter 2:4, there is the participle
> PROSERCHOMENOI (literally meaning "coming").
> Can this participle be used as an imperative--
> "Come"? It would make the translation a
> little smoother, but I want to be as accurate
> as I possibly can. Thanks for any input.
You can find a fair amount of discussion of exactly this point by going to
the full text search engine for the archives. I had good results using the
search key "PROSERC*".
Personally, I liked what Chapel Roe had to say in one of those threads:
I would read PROSERCHOMENOI as an adverbial
participle expressing time and modifying the
verb OIKODOMEISQE. The translation would then be
parallel--"While coming to him, (who is) a living
stone...you also as living stones are being built up."
Hope this helps!
Jonathan
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