From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 14 1999 - 10:09:32 EDT
At 8:33 AM -0500 4/14/99, Bill Ross wrote:
>Conspicuously absent from Mr. Woodruf's list is "Sit, Walk, Stand" by
>Watchman Nee. He doesn't appeal to the Greek much but the tiny book speaks
>volumes.
>
>As to the Greek, this seems a good time to bring up Eph 2:8
>
>XARITI ESTE SEWSMENOI
>
>These are some common renderings:
>
>For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from
>yourselves, it is the gift of God--
>RSV
>For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own
>doing, it is the gift of God--
>KJV
>For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
>the gift of God:
>DBY
>For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is
>God's gift:
>YLT
>for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you --
>of God the gift,
>
>It seems to me that it ought to read:
>
> "In grace are you, having been saved through faith"
WHY would you claim that this is preferable? So far as the Greek morphology
and syntax are concerned, I would think: (1) ESTE SESWiSMENOI is the
standard form of the perfect passive, and (2) although CARITI as an
instrumental dative is perfectly intelligible with ESTE SESWiSMENOI,
there's no way I can see to make it construe with a simple ESTE except as a
dative of possession, which would have to imply, I think, that CARITI is a
person, "You belong to someone named 'Grace.'" "You are in (a state of)
grace" is perfectly intelligible English, but I do not think CARITI ESTE is
intelligible Greek.
Carl W. Conrad
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