Re: Rom 4:12

• To: Carl Conrad <C25001CC@wuvmd.wustl.edu>
• Subject: Re: Rom 4:12
• From: "Philip L. Graber" <pgraber@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
• Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 09:58:22 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: b-greek@virginia.edu, coulie@ori.ucl.ac.be
• In-Reply-To: <9404272226.AA11671@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>

On Wed, 27 Apr 1994, Carl Conrad wrote:

> The context, inasmuch as it is concerned with
> faith-righteousness as a phenomenon pre-existing the
> practice of circumcision and illustrated in Abraham's
> example,  seems to me pretty clearly to favor the second
> interpretation.
> 
> The problem, in my view, is that either (1) the initial TOIS
> is mistakenly repeated before the participle STOIKHOYSIN, or
> (2) the negative particle OYK is mistakenly placed inside
> the article.
> 

This second option also seems to me to be right, especially in light of
4:16:  ou twi ek tou nomou monon alla kai twi ek pistews abraam.

Philip Graber
Emory University

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