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  • From: "Eric Weiss" <eweiss AT gte.net>
  • To: corpus-paul
  • Subject: Galatians 2:20 and EN PISTEI
  • Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:45:31


The listmanager suggested I submit this B-GREEK query to this list
also:

In Galatians 2:20, what kind of "EN" are we dealing with in EN PISTEI? A
skim-through seems to show that when Paul means one lives "by" or
"through" faith (i.e., instrumental), he uses EK PISTEWS or DIA PISTEWS.
Does he use EN here because he just used EN in EN SARKI [dative of sphere
or reference(?)] -- though for EN PISTEI he means an instrumental dative?
I.e.: "But [or: And] in that [or: but the life that] I now am living with
reference to the [or: in this] flesh, I am living by [means of] faith..."
(I take "flesh" here to have the negative connotations it has elsewhere
in this epistle, as opposed to simply meaning "living in a body"...Any
thoughts on that?)

- OR -

Is EN PISTEI, like EN SARKI, likewise a dative of reference or sphere?
I.e.: "But in that I now am living in this flesh, I am living in the sphere
of faith - the Son of God's faith [who lives in me]"

I hope I'm not making a mountain out of a molehill.

- - -
Eric S. Weiss
eweiss AT gte.net
(no institutional affiliation)



  • Galatians 2:20 and EN PISTEI, Eric Weiss, 04/07/1999

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