[B-Greek] hUPAKOHN PISTEWS

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 20 14:24:21 EST 2008


ὑπακοή [hUPAKOH] and πίστις [PISTIS] are coupled together in Rom 1.5 

διʼ οὗ ἐλάβομεν χάριν καὶ ἀποστολὴν εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ 
 
DI' hOU ELABOMEN XARIN KAI APOSTOLH EIS hUPAKOHN PISTEW EN PASIN TOIS EQNESIN hUPER TOU ONOMATOS AUTOU
 
and Rom 16.26

φανερωθέντος δὲ νῦν διά τε γραφῶν προφητικῶν κατʼ ἐπιταγὴν τοῦ αἰωνίου θεοῦ εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη γνωρισθέντος, 
 
FANERWQENTOS DE NUN DIA TE GRAFWN PROFHTIKWN KAT' EPITAGHN TOU AIWNIOU QEOU EIS hUPAKOHN PISTEW EIS PANTA TA EQNH GNWRISQENTOS

Cranfield details various possibilities for this combination in his ICC commentary

(i) ‘obedience to the faith’ (i.e., to faith in the sense of fides quae creditor, the body of doctrine accepted);
(ii) ‘obedience to faith’ (i.e., to the authority of faith);
(iii) ‘obedience to God’s faithfulness attested in the gospel’;
(iv) ‘the obedience which faith works’;
(v) ‘the obedience required by faith’;
(vi) ‘believing obedience’;
(vii) ‘the obedience which consists in faith’.
 
Cranfield, C. E. B. (2004). A critical and exegetical commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (66). London; New York: T&T Clark International.

Cranfield notes that 1-3 are objective genitives, 4 & 5 are subjective genitives, 6 is adjectival and 7 is appositive and opts for 7.  This seems to be the choice which Elliott makes according to what you have said.  Personally, I tend to think it could be all of the above.  We sometimes tend to classify usages so strictly that we exclude what may seem to be legitimate understandings.  The Greek would simply have seen a noun in the genitive related to a noun in the accusative.  He was free to draw his own conclusions regarding what it meant.  It seems interesting to me that it is not simply ὑπακοὴν πίστεως [hUPAKOHN PISTEWS] but εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως [EIS hUPAKOHN PISTEWS] in both cases.  Thus "the obedience of faith" (however construed) is the objective.

george
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From: John Wilking <jcwilking at yahoo.com>
To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:07:55 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] hUPAKOHN PISTEWS


Neil Elliott wrote a book, The Arrogance Of Nations, Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire.  He says that hUPAKOHN and PISTEWS are almost interchangeable in Romans, and when combined in the genitive phrase hUPAKOHN PISTEWS, PISTEWS functions as an adjective, "faithful obedience."

Are there other examples in which "interchangeable terms" are combined, resulting in the same or similar functions?

John C. Wilking  


      
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