[B-Greek] FW: EN hWi: Heb. 2:18

Webb webb at selftest.net
Fri May 11 03:14:40 EDT 2007


I see that Zerwick-Grosvenor takes EN hWi similarly to the way Lattimore and
I have, saying, "EN hWi in that, because, EN causal, Rom. 8:3 para. 119",
referencing Zerwick, Biblical Greek, English edn (Rome: SPIB, 1963), p. 40,
in which it says, referring to Heb. 2:18, 

--Unless this usage be taken into account, how is one to understand Paul
when he says, of the hope of resurrection, Acts 24,16: EN TOUTWi (=
'therefore') KAI AUTOS ASKW APROSKOPON SUNEIDHSIN ECEIN..., or Rom. 8,3 TO
GAR ADUNATON TOU NOMOU EN hWi HSQENEI DIA THS SARKOS, where the only
reasonable sense for EN hWi is 'in that' = 'because'.

More grist for the mill.

Webb Mealy

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Subject: [B-Greek] EN hWi: Heb. 2:18

EN hW GAR PEPONQEN AUTOS PEIRASQEIS (Heb. 2:18)

Carl Conrad rendered this a while ago on the list as "since he has himself
been tempted/tested in that wherein he has suffered/is the/an accomplished
sufferer."

I see that Lattimore has, "...for by the fact that he himself suffered
through trial".

I'm not interested for the purposes of this post in the matter of
trial/testing versus temptation, but in the weight of EN hWi. When I first
encountered it, I read it as "After all, given the fact that he's suffered
temptation/testing himself". But then I remembered that EN hWi has usually
been taken as meaning what Carl's rendering suggests. Is there a way of
deciding which of these readings--the more abstract, or the more
specific--is more likely to be what the author meant? 

Webb Mealy

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