From: Moon-Ryul Jung (moon@saint.soongsil.ac.kr)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 02:57:45 EST
Jim,
I see a very interesting sentence in front of me.
Hmn...
The versions I am familiar with seem to take the two verses as:
"To those elected [as] strangers of dispersion of X, Y, Z...
according to the foreknowledge of God
by means of the sanctification of the Spirit.... "
So, KATA PROGNWSIN QEOU is tken to modify EKLEKTOIS.
It seems to be the only way to take the verses because
EKLEKTOIS is the only predicate that can be modified by
adverbial KATA PROGNWSIN QEOU. But it does not seem so unnatural to make
the other adverbials "By the sancitication of the Spirit", "unto obedience
and the sprinkling of the blood of Christ" modify "elected".
ASV has the following:
1Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are
sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and
Bithynia,
1Pe 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood
of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
Here EKLEKTOIS is taken as apposition to PAREPIDDHMOIS. KATA PROGNWSIN
QEOU
is construed with PAREPIDHMOIS, so that we have "sojourners according to
the
foreknowledge of God by the sanctification of the Spirit unto
obedience and spirinkling of Jesus Chrit". But what does it mean?
Does it mean "sojourners who have become so according to the
foreknowlege of God,...."?
Moon
Moon-Ryul Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
ASV
>
> I take that back. The NIV treats the terms as appositives. The KJV and HCSB
> could treat the adjective as a modifier, but they separate it from the
> noun. The ASV almost treats "elect" as the governing noun. The Greek,
> however, works perfectly well with "elect" is an adjective modifying
> "strangers."
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
>
> I am just beginning my Syntax studies in Greek and have a simple question
> about 1 Pet 1:1. Are the words EKLEKTOIS PAREPIDDHMOIS in apposition?.
> I am understanding EKLEKTOIS to be an adjective and PAREPIDHMOIS to be a
> noun, but the modification seems unnecessary and leads to questions about
> how PARAPIDHMOIS could be related to the rest of the clause- especially
> hAMATOS. The second part of my question is probably not as simple: If
> these words are in apposition, what is the relationship of them to KATA
> PROGNWSIN, etc? How do I understand and describe this relationship? Are
> both datives related to/dependent on (what would be the word?) KATA
> PROGNWSIN QEOU? I am beginning to use Porter and Wallace and if there
> are sections that will supplement your answers please direct me to them.
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