From: Daniel Buck (dbuck@briercrest.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 10:09:13 EDT
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=910522313-16102000>Kevin
wrote:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Eph 2:1,</DIV>
<DIV>KAI hUMAS ONTAS NEKROUS TOIS PARAPTWMASIN KAI TAS hAMARTIAIS hUMWN.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Question: Why is hUMAS accussative? It seems to be the object of an
implied verb, but what verb? </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=910522313-16102000>If you note the
parallel structure between verse 1 and verse 5 I would suggest that the
initial thought of verse 1 is resumed in verse 5. Also the structure of
KAI hUMAS ... KAI hHMAS may be read as both you (Gentiles believers) ... and
we (Jewish believers). Both are dead in trespasses, though the former
situation of the Gentile believers receives further expansion. But finally
verse 5 gives us the verbal thought of this entire unit, SUNEZWOPOIHSEN TWi
XRISTWi both hUMAS and hHMAS. ONTAS being a temporal and parenthetical
comment setting up the situation of the believers in contrast with the mercy
of God (v. 4) and His above and beyond grace (v.8)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Daniel E. Buck<BR>Assistant Professor of
NT/Theology<BR>Briercrest Bible College<BR>510 College Dr.<BR>Caronport, SK.
S0H 0S0<BR><A href="http://www.briercrest.ca/"
target=_blank>http://www.briercrest.ca><BR><BR>"If you lack knowledge, what
have you acquired? If you have acquired knowledge, what do you lack?" (Midrash
Rabbah Numbers 19.3)</FONT></P></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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