From: dalmatia@eburg.com
Date: Wed Jul 15 1998 - 11:00:38 EDT
Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
> At 09:29 AM 7/13/98 -0700, dalmatia@eburg.com wrote:
> >Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> >
> >> (1) Paul's interpretation of the phrase which he cites from Hab 2:4 as hO
> >> DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS ZHSETAI--and which I think ought properly to be
> >> construed by taking EK PISTEWS with ZHSETAI--certainly appears to be
> >> understood by Paul in Rom 1:17ff in such a way that EK PISTEWS functions
> >> adjectivally with hO DIKAIOS.
> >
> >When a modifier lies between two terms like this [here between the
> >subject and the verb], I have always taken it to 'distribute' to
> >[modify] both, unless otherwise contraindicated. Why does it have to
> >be one or the other?
>
> Are you saying that hO DE DIKAIOS EK PISTEWS ZHSETAI means "those who are
> righteous by faith shall live by faith"? Can you give examples of other
> places where this kind of construction should be translated this way?
No, I'm saying that the literal translation ~ "But the righteous out
of faith shall be living," is pretty good.
The reason is because it does not attach EK PISTEWS to either term,
but allows it to modify hO DE DIKAIOS ZHSETAI as a whole unit of
discourse. [And not to each term separately, as your query
indicates.] It seems that we have been wanting to pigeon hole it to
either hO DIKAIOS or to ZHSETAI only, and I believe by so doing we err
~ But I am certainly open to being wrong...
George
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