[B-Greek] Verbal Genitive 1 Peter 1:2

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 01:27:52 EST 2008


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Carl W. Conrad
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
>

> That still seems more complicated than it ought to be:
> ἐν ἁγιασμῷ πνεύματος [EN hAGIASMWi PNEUMATOS}
> (a) subjective genitive: "by means of the Spirit's sanctifying (of
> you, the addressees)" -- In this instance hAGIASMOS is a verbal noun
> standing, let us say, for an infinitive such as TO hAGIAZEIN in which
> case PNEUMA as God's Spirit would be the subject of the infinitive
> (b) objective genitive: "by means of the sanctifying of (your) spirit"
> -- In this instance hAGIASMOS is a verbal noun standing for an
> infinitive such as TO hAGIAZEIN with PNEUMA being the object of the
> infinitive "to sanctify spirit" -- "spirit" in that case would have to
> be the believer's spirit, not God's Spirit.
>
>

That does clarify it well.

My question is:

Does the anarthrous PNEUMATOS suggests it is more likely objective
genitive?  Thus would  it be too far off if I understand the whole
prepositional phrase to say:

'being sanctified in your spirit  to become obedient to Jesus Christ
and to get sprinkled with His blood'?

(Note; the phrase IHSOU CRISTOU is put to hUPAKON rather than
hRATISMON, as in NASB).


Oun Kwon.


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