From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 17:21:10 EDT
At 1:40 PM +0000 7/5/01, Mark Wilson wrote:
>Carl:
>
>Concerning this:
>-------
>> >Romans 14:11b
>> >
>> >hOTI EMOI KAMYEI PAN GONU
>> >KAI PASA GLWSSA EXOMOLOGHSETAI TWi QEWi
>> >
>> >
>> >I was expecting hOTI after EXOMOLOGHSETAI to indicate
>> >the content of what was going to be confessed.
>> >
>Here's L&N:
>>
>>33.274 hOMOLOGEW; hOMOLOGIA, -AS, f., EXOMOLOGEOMAI: to express openly
>>one's allegiance to a proposition or person - 'to profess, to confess,
>>confession.'
>>hOMOLOGEW; hOSTIS hOMOLOGHSEI EN EMOI EMPROSQEN TWN ANQRWPWN, hOMOLOGHSW
>>KAGW EN AUTWi EMPROSQEN TOU PATROS MOU 'whoever confesses me before people,
>>I will confess him before my Father' Mt 10:32.
>>hOMOLOGIA: KATECWMEN THN hOMOLOGIAN THS ELPIDOS 'let us hold on to the hope
>>we profess' He 10:23.
>>EXOMOLOGEOMAI: DIA TOUTO EXOMOLOGHSOMAI SOI EN EQNESIN 'therefore I will
>>confess you before the Gentiles' Ro 15:9. For another interpretation of
>>EXOMOLOGEOMAI in Ro 15:9, see 33.359.
>------------
>
>L&N follows somewhat what I had noticed in BAGD. It seems to me that these
>citations have a complement to profess/confess, Namely: confesses ME,
>confess HIM, we profess THE HOPE, confess YOU...
>
>And note a similar quotation by Paul in Phil 2:11
>
>KAI PASA GLWSSA EXOMOLOGHSHTAI hOTI KURIOS IHSOUS CRISTOS
>
>This is why I was expecting some hOTI or complement to confess.
>
>Are you saying then that you understand this construct in Rm 14:11
>to say something like, "every tongue shall openly profess their allegience
>to God."
Precisely. If you'll note the primary definition above, it's "to a
proposition OR a person"--in Phil 2:11 it certainly is a proposition,
although what it amounts to is every soul professing the Lordship of Jesus
over itself. But in Rom 14:11b, it is a person rather than a proposition
that allegiance to is expressed. What I was saying was that you've only
allowed for one alternative of the EITHER/OR.
--
Carl W. Conrad
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