anarthrous noun in Romans 10:4

David R. Mills dmills at mitec.net
Thu Feb 4 22:05:34 EST 1999


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In Romans 10:4, NOMOU is anarthrous: TELOS GAR NOMOU CRISTOS EIS 
DIKAIOSUNHN PANTI TWi PISTEUONTI.  Accordingly, one commentary says that 
Paul is talking about law in general and not the Law of Moses.  Can a case 
be made for NOMOU being definite?  I notice that none of the nouns here 
have articles, yet CRISTOS is definite.  Can we assume that TELOS is 
definite?  Would it be unusual for NOMOU, which modifies TELOS, to be 
definite in this case?  

David R. Mills
ESL Instructor
Creighton University





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