Re: Romans 1:16,17 - The antecedent of EN AUTW

From: John Wilking (johnwilking@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 21:12:26 EST

<x-flowed>F.F. Bruce tried to make the point that APOKALUYAI TON hUION AUTOU EN EMOI
in Galations 1:16 should or could be translated "reveal his son to me." We
also have FANERON ESTIN EN AUTOIS in Romans 1:19 which James Dunn translates
as "is evident to them." The prepositional phrase seems to be equivalent to
the following AUTOIS in the same verse. It seems that EN may have the idea
of "to". Perhaps it has this meaning when it is collocated with certain
verbs.

John C. Wilking

>From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
>Reply-To: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>CC: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Romans 1:16,17 - The antecedent of EN AUTW
>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:58:31 -0600
>
>At 4:47 PM -0800 2/12/00, John Wilking wrote:
> >EN AUTW is generally understood to refer to TO EUAGGELION in verse 16. I
> >suspect that PANTI TW PISTEUONTI is a more likely antecedent. Is there
>any
> >evidence to the contrary?
>
>Personally I think it unlikely that PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI is the antecedent
>of EN AUTWi in verse 17 because the DIKAIOSUNH QEOU is said to be revealed
>(APOKALUPTETAI) EN AUTWi--and EN AUTWi doesn't mean "to him" but "in
>it"--it must be locative or instrumental in function with APOKALUPTETAI, so
>I think that EN AUTWi must be understood either as "in it (the gospel)" or
>"by means of it (the gospel)"--the righteousness of God is revealed. The
>dative of reference or indirect object doesn't ever have a preposition with
>it.
>
>--
>
>Carl W. Conrad
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