From: Wayne Leman (wleman@mcn.net)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 13:19:07 EST
Thank you, Dennis. "In a position of personal interest with Christ" is
better than some other renderings, but I still don't understand what it
means. Let's both keep working on it. Surely there is a way to express the
meaning of EN XRISTWi in accurate, normal English that can be understood by
ordinary, fluent speakers of Koine English.
Thanks again,
Wayne
> >>Thanks, Dennis. Yours is helpful input. From your own years of trying to
> understand this critically important phrase of the NT, have you come up
with
> any ideas of how to express the meaning of the phrase in accurate,
> understandable English?
>
> Wayne<<
>
> Dear Wayne,
>
> Sorry, but I have not been able to specify this function in an
understandable phrase. "By" can always be expanded as
> ""by means of" or "by agency of" and other phrases such as "in manner of",
"in acompaniment with", "in association
> with" can help specify a particular function. But I have not been able to
come up with an understandable phrase for the
> dative of location. The only thing I can do right now is give an
explanatory footnote.
>
> In a position of personal interest with Christ,
>
> Dennis Hukel
> hukel@bhiinc.com
>
>
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