From: Harold R. Holmyard III (hholmyard@ont.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 19:23:36 EDT
Dear Jason,
>Titus 2.13
>PROSDECOMENOI THN MAKARIAN ELPIDA KAI EPIFANEIAN THS DOXHS TOU MEGALOU
>QEOU KAI SWTHROS hHMWN IHSOU CRISTOU
>If Granville Sharp's rule is not (necessarily) applicable to the 2 Thess.
>passage, why does the NIV translate Titus 2.13 as "looking for the blessed
>hope--the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior..." It takes
>ELPIDA and EPIFANEIA to be identical through (apparently) Sharp's rule.
>Would it not be in the same category as 2 Thess. 2.1? Wallace's reason
>for not including that passage is that it regards "concrete temporal
>referents," one of which is the parousia. I would guess that ELPIDA isn't
>really a "temporal event," but it is in reference to some temporal event.
>Any comments???
HH: The way that I have understood this verse is that involves waiting for
the blessed hope of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, and
for the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. We
are waiting for both. One will be a personal transformation for us when we
receive the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. The time that
this will happen is the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior
Jesus Christ at His Second Advent.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
Dallas, TX
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