From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 09:39:16 EDT
At 8:48 PM -0700 6/1/00, John Wilking wrote:
>To all,
>
>Are there any grammatical reasons for not taking EI GAR ABRAAM EX ERGWN
>EDIKAIWQN ECEI KAUCHMA, Rom. 4:2, as a simple condition?
What reason would there be? Both clauses have indicative verbs; there is no
AN. To be sure this could have been written as a counter-factual condition:
EI GAR ABRAAM EX ERGWN EDIKAIWQH, EICEN AN KAUCHMA ("If, after all, Abraham
HAD been justified by works, he would have bragging rights"), but as it
stands, the result clause depends simply upon the truth of the
condition/premiss.
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