From: Steven Lo Vullo (slovullo@mac.com)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 21:11:42 EST
on 2/18/02 4:39 PM, c stirling bartholomew at
cc.constantine@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> Having read Carl's and Moon's comments I will suggest an alternative
> approach.
>
> ROM. 1:16 OU GAR EPAISCUNOMAI TO EUAGGELION, DUNAMIS GAR QEOU ESTIN EIS
> SWTHRIAN PANTI TW PISTEUONTI, IOUDAIW TE PRWTON KAI ELLHNI.
>
> Let's expand this into three parallel constructions:
>
>
> DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI
> [DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN] IOUDAIW . . . PRWTON
> [DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN] ELLHNI
>
>
> Perhaps this shows the "ellipsis" (in brackets) Steven asked about. Using
> this expanded form, one might be tempted to see PRWTON as limiting the the
> entire expression [DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN].
>
> As the text stands in the GNT (w/o the expansions), IOUDAIW is a subset of
> TWi PISTEUONTI. ELLHNI is also a subset TWi PISTEUONTI. The first statement
> DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI states the global
> formula, and IOUDAIW/ELLHNI make specific distinctions within the global
> statement. PRWTON makes a further distinction between the 2nd and third
> statements.
>
> So we might see this as semantic hierarchy (top down):
>
> (level one) DUNAMIS . . . QEOU ESTIN EIS SWTHRIAN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI
> (level two) IOUDAIWi TE . . . KAI hELLHNI
> (level three) IOUDAIW . . . PRWTON
Clay:
Thanks for the confirmation. This is exactly the conclusion I came to last
night after mulling this over for a while. For some reason I was originally
taking IOUDAIWi and hELLHNI as appositives to TWi PISTEUONTI. When I
realized this was incorrect, and that they were subsets of TWi PISTEUONTI
(as you say above) things began to fall into place. And thanks also for the
helpful semantic hierarchy.
============
Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
slovullo@mac.com
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