Eph 4:22-24 infinitives

From: Trevor M Peterson (spedrson@juno.com)
Date: Fri Dec 18 1998 - 16:43:36 EST

In the course of analyzing the structure of Eph 4:17-24, I've come to a
bit of a fork in the road. The infinitive PERIPATEIN in v. 17 seems
pretty obviously to follow from LEGW and MARTUROMAI. But when we come
down to v. 20, there's something of a break in the flow. While I would
tend to subordinate vv. 18-19 under PERIPATEIN as all part of one
sentence, v. 20 seems to back up to his original point in v. 17. On the
other hand, it could conceivably be an interjection altogether that
really doesn't carry forward the flow of the passage. If that were the
case, we could say that the flow picks back up with v. 22 (by
subordinating v. 21 under v. 20), so that the infinitives would continue
from the original idea of MARTUROMAI . . . PERIPATEIN . . . APOQESQAI (v.
22) . . . ANANEOUSQAI (v. 23) . . . ENDUSASQAI (v. 24). On the other
hand, the fact that these are all middle/passive forms versus the active
form of PERIPATEIN may say something against such a connection.
Furthermore, it makes good sense to let these later infinitives follow
from EDIDACQHTE in v. 21.

So basically, where I'm at right now looks something like this:

KAI MARTUROMAI EN KURIWi,
        MHKETI hUMAS PERIPATEIN, . . . (v. 17)
        hUMEIS DE OUK hOUTWS EMAQETE TON CRISTON, (v. 20)
                EI GE AUTON HKOUSATE
                KAI EN AUTWi EDIDACQHTE,
                        KAQWS ESTIN ALHQEIA EN TWi IHSOU, (v. 21)
                        APOQESQAI . . . (v. 22)
                        ANANEOUSQAI . . . (v. 23)
                        KAI ENDUSASQAI . . . (v. 24)

But I'm wondering if maybe it should look more like this:

KAI MARTUROMAI EN KURIWi,
        MHKETI hUMAS PERIPATEIN, . . . (v. 17)
                        hUMEIS DE OUK hOUTWS EMAQETE TON CRISTON,
                                EI GE AUTON HKOUSATE
                                KAI EN AUTWi EDIDACQHTE . . . (v. 21)
        APOQESQAI . . . (v. 22)
        ANANEOUSQAI . . . (v. 23)
        KAI ENDUSASQAI . . . (v. 24)

Any thoughts?

Trevor Peterson
Bible/Theology Department
Washington Bible College
Lanham, MD

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