From: William Dicks (wd@isis.co.za)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 07:51:11 EST
Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
> At 07:40 AM 1/8/98 +0200, William Dicks wrote:
> >In Rom. 4:18 we have the translation from NASB "In hope against hope"
> >for PAR ELPIDA EP ELPIDI. Out of my 4 resources BAGD and Thayer suggest
> >that EP ELPIDI is a kind of dative of support. Translated it could then
> >read "In hope, on the basis of (or supported by) hope."
>
> Which entry in BAGD was that? I'd like to look at it.
>
> Jonathan
I looked up EPI. It has a section for Genitive, Dative, etc. I found
this under Dative.
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