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    Eph. 2:8

    Does this make sense?

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    Ephesians 2:8

    Here isa pronounceable transliteration:

    8. Tee' ga'r cha'riti' este sesoosme'noi dia' pi'steoos, kai' tou'toouk ex humoo'n, Theou'

    to' doo'ron,

    here's the literal transliteration:

    Te gar chariti (grace) este sesosmenoi (you have been saved) dia pisteos (faith), kai

    toutoouk (this)ex humon, Theou to doron, (it is, as we find it in our translations, is

    added for clarity. It's not in the Greek.

    So we have:

    chariti, which is feminine

    sesosmenoi, (or sozo, as it is translated literally), is masculine

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    pisteos , is also feminine

    toutoouk, (or touto, as it is translated literally) is neuter

    At first this means nothing, until you start to apply Greek grammer rules. Touto is the

    pronoun. It is the neuter nominative of the feminine houtos, this. Usually the pronoun

    will agree in gender with it's closest antecedent (the noun in this verse), in this case it's

    faith. However, grace and faith are both feminine, while the pronoun, this, is neuter.

    The pronoun does not match the gender of it's closest antecedent in Eph. 2:8. The bestpossible solution is to move the masculine sozo over and translate it as such:

    For by grace through faith you are saved, it is not of yourselves. This refers the

    pronoun, touto, to the entire thought, grace through faith. If Paul wanted (faith) pisteos

    (feminine) to point to the gift, he would have used houtos, which is also feminine. That

    would have made a clear connection between faith and the gift. Grace is not the gift

    here, it is the basis of the gift (though sctipture, in other places, does say it is a gift) andfaith is the means in which we accept this gift. Salvation, in this verse, is the gift.

    Do a word study on Faith. There is only one place where is is actually and directlymentioned as a gift:

    1 Corinthians 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing bythe same Spirit;

    but the following verse seems to explain ot better:

    2 Corinthians 10:15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's

    labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by youaccording to our rule abundantly,

    It is an increasing of faith which is the real gift.

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    Originally Posted by JM

    Does this make sense?

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    Hi Jason,

    It makes perfect sense. Even someone overtly hostile to Calvinism like A T Robertson

    gets it.

    And that (kai touto). Neuter, not feminine taut, and so refers not to pistis

    (feminine) or to charis (feminine also), but to the act of being savedby grace

    conditioned on faith on our part. Paul shows that salvation does not have its source (ex

    humn, out of you) in men, but from God. Besides, it is Gods gift (dron) and not theresult of our work. Robertson's Word Pictures

    Ignore that part where he uses the word "conditioned."

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    Ok, thanks.

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    JM, I am a little bit confused by your exegesis. On the one hand you say that the

    "touto" refers to the entire idea of salvation being by grace through faith. Later you say

    that it refers to "salvation." Do you mean the word "salvation" or the whole phrase? It

    cannot refer just to the word "salvation" because "salvation" is masculine and "touto" isneuter. If Paul wanted to refer to the word "salvation" he could have done this rather

    easily.

    "Touto" could also be adverbial in this context. Daniel Wallace has a nice entry on this

    passage on his Exegetical Syntax. He doesn't seem to think that the exegetical

    evidence is enough to only maintain that "salvation by grace through faith" can be the

    "touto" here. Well he will not be a hardliner on this at least. He believes that the

    adverbial or the above exegesis is fitting, but he can't make a decision. I am inclined to

    think that the "touto" is the whole phrase because Paul has tendencies to use a neuter

    demonstrative pronoun to refer back to whole ideas (he does this in chapter one and

    3:1)

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    Sorry brother [no sig, can't call you by name] but it was a quote and not my exegesis. I

    haven't studied Greek and was looking for help understanding this passage from the

    Greek.

    So, it doesn't make sense?

    Peace,

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    Originally Posted by CubsIn07

    JM, I am a little bit confused by your exegesis. On the one hand you say that the "touto"

    refers to the entire idea of salvation being by grace through faith. Later you say that it

    refers to "salvation." Do you mean the word "salvation" or the whole phrase? It cannot

    refer just to the word "salvation" because "salvation" is masculine and "touto" is neuter.If Paul wanted to refer to the word "salvation" he could have done this rather easily.

    "Touto" could also be adverbial in this context. Daniel Wallace has a nice entry on this

    passage on his Exegetical Syntax. He doesn't seem to think that the exegetical evidence

    is enough to only maintain that "salvation by grace through faith" can be the "touto"

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    here. Well he will not be a hardliner on this at least. He believes that the adverbial or

    the above exegesis is fitting, but he can't make a decision. I am inclined to think that the

    "touto" is the whole phrase because Paul has tendencies to use a neuter demonstrative

    pronoun to refer back to whole ideas (he does this in chapter one and 3:1)

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    Well the neuter "it" can't refer to the masculine participle "salvation" alone because of

    the gender confusion between participle and pronoun. I think you understood this, but I

    was just trying to clear it up. I am caught between the "it" being adverbial meaning that

    it is intensifying the masculine participle which means that "it" doesn't necessarily referto anything but is intending to say "especially." In fact it could just be referring forward

    to the idea that you are not saved by your own doing. Knowledgeable Arminians tend to

    take this route. But I just don't see how the "it" could be intensive without really

    intensifying anything in particular (or at least nothing that we can be really sure of). I

    think it is referring to the idea that salvation, salvation which is by God's grace and

    through faith as a whole is not of yourselves. But it is possible that Paul is using it

    adverbially in such a way that we really aren't sure what is being intensified.

    I tried putting in my signature, but it won't come up. I'm Jeremy.

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    Originally Posted by CubsIn07

    Well the neuter "it" can't refer to the masculine participle "salvation" alone because of

    the gender confusion between participle and pronoun. I think you understood this, but I

    was just trying to clear it up. I am caught between the "it" being adverbial meaning that

    it is intensifying the masculine participle which means that "it" doesn't necessarily refer

    to anything but is intending to say "especially." In fact it could just be referring forward

    to the idea that you are not saved by your own doing. Knowledgeable Arminians tend to

    take this route. But I just don't see how the "it" could be intensive without reallyintensifying anything in particular (or at least nothing that we can be really sure of). I

    think it is referring to the idea that salvation, salvation which is by God's grace and

    through faith as a whole is not of yourselves. But it is possible that Paul is using it

    adverbially in such a way that we really aren't sure what is being intensified.

    I tried putting in my signature, but it won't come up. I'm Jeremy.

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    I'll make two replies.

    1) it is a quite common Greek convention to use the neuter to collectivize, in which

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    case, the strongest argument gramatically (whatever else may be put forward) is that,

    as has already been stated, the whole idea taken as a unit (with the differing genderspecifics) is refered to by "this."

    2) it may be that this is the only place where the noun "faith" or "belief" is clearly a gift,

    or part of a gift. But it is NOT the only place where "to believe" or "to have faith" as a

    verbalidea is presented as a free gift or grant (we don't have a verb "faithing", but theGreek terms are obvious cognates).

    Example:

    Philippians 1:29"Because to you it has been grantedin the behalf of Christ,

    a) not only to believeon him,

    b) but also to sufferin his behalf.

    The two parts (a) and (b) complete the verb.

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    For by grace you have been saved by faith, and thatnot of yourselves, it is the gift of

    God, not of works, so that no one should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 NASB. I know the ESV

    renders toutoas this, which may be more proper, but the following is an extract from

    an article I already had written:

    There are two main interpretations of this text, both interpretations hinging on what is

    meant by the phrase and that, more spec ifically the pronoun that(NASB). This

    demonstrative pronoun has an antecedent to which it refers. So the question is, What

    is the thatwhich is the gift of God?

    1. The first interpretation takes it as referring to faith. This has been the view of many

    Bible scholars over the years, e.g. Augustine, Beza, Hodge, Kuyper, and Hendriksen.

    This is also the natural meaning one would take from the plain reading of the English

    text. If this interpretation is correct, then the question is immediately settled, faith isthe gift. Those holding this view would paraphrase it like this, By grace you have been

    saved through faith, and even your faith is not of yourselves; faith is a gift from God, so

    you cannot boast in the least. Thus Paul is stressing here that even your faith is a gift

    in order to exclude the possibility of any boasting.

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    The difficulty with this view is as follows. In the Greek, thatis a neuter demonstrative

    pronoun but faithis a feminine noun. The general rule would have the two agree in

    gender. Why would Paul use what may be viewed as awkward or incorrect grammar?

    Those who hold this first interpretation give several replies. For example, a pronoun

    usually but not always agrees with its noun in gender. There are exceptions to the

    general rule as can be seen in the Greek of Acts 8:10, Jude 12, 2 Pet. 2:17, 1 Pet.

    2:19, 1 Cor. 6:11, and 1 Cor. 10:6 (Ref. A. T. Robertson, A Grammar of the Greek New

    Testament, p. 704). Examples may also be found in classical and Koine Greek where

    neuter pronouns are used to refer to both masculine and feminine nouns. It has also

    been suggested that the formula and that(Greek: kai touto) is often used in a technicalsense to add special emphasis to the idea to which it is attached, and in this case it is

    attached to the word faith in the Greek as well as in the English translation. Finally, it is

    also generally true that a pronoun refers to the nearest antecedent or closest noun.

    Again, in this case, it is the word faith.

    2. The other major interpretation has the word thatreferring back to the whole

    preceding thought, centering on the verb. This is the view of other well known scholars

    such as Calvin, Eadie, Matthew Henry, and John Gill. This view may have fewer

    difficulties and appeals to some direct grammatical parallels for support. There are four

    other sentences in the New Testament, all by Paul, which are grammatically parallel: 1

    Cor. 6:6 and 6:8, Phil. 1:28, and Rom. 13:11. In each of these, the demonstrative

    pronoun, that, refers to the whole preceding clause or sentence with the thoughtcentering on the verb. According to this view, Eph. 2:8-9 would be paraphrased thus,

    By grace you have been saved through faith. But this salvat ion is not of yourselves,

    salvation is the gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast.

    This last interpretation is also readily adopted by those who deny that faith, itself, is a

    gift. They think that if thatdoes not refer specifically to faith they have made their

    case. But there are a couple of snags here. First, in this interpretation, thatrefers to

    the whole idea of the preceding clause. It is not merely salvation which is the gift of

    God, but salvation through faithwhich is Gods gift. Hence, this doesnt exclude faith as

    a gift. On the contrary, if the whole of salvation is the gift, then so are the parts that

    make up the whole and here that specifically includes faith. Faith is intrinsic to

    salvation. Secondly, even if somehow one could show that Paul did not mean to imply

    that faith is a gift here, that does not mean that Paul is denying that faith is a gift. He

    would simply be saying something else.

    However, I personally favor the first view. If thatdoesnt refer to faith then it must

    indeed refer to the idea of salvation. Yet, if we take Paul to mean this being saved is

    not of yourselves he would be somewhat guilty of needless repetition, for he has just

    said we are saved by grace, which by definition is not of ourselves. The whole context

    of Ephesians up to this point, and especially chapter 2, seems to be stressing the fact

    that it is all by Gods grace. We were made alive when we were yet dead, not in

    response to our faith. I think this is the point Paul is making: even our faith is not of

    ourselves, it is a gift of God!

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    I don't mean to quibble, but you are translating a near demonstrative "touto" or "this" as

    a far demonstrative "ekeinos" or "that." Is there interplay between the two?

    Wallace says on p. 334 of his Exegetical Syntax that R.H. Countess wrote an article inJETS where he said that a neuter demonstrative can refer back to a noun of a different

    gender. Wallace goes on to say that Countess cites no NT examples and two of his

    classical examples actually refer to concepts rather than nouns. From Wallace's

    perspective the jury is either out or is ruling against the idea that a neuter

    demonstrative can refer back to a masculine or feminine.

    In the Acts 8:10 passage I don't think the demonstrative has gender difficulties with its

    noun. The demonstrative "outos" is nominative, singular, masculine and is referring back

    to "magic" or "mageuov" which is also nominative, singular, masculine.

    What exactly do you mean when you say "There are four other sentences in the New

    Testament, all by Paul, which are grammatically parallel: 1 Cor. 6:6 and 6:8, Phil. 1:28,

    and Rom. 13:11"? Do you mean that a neuter pronoun refers back to a collective?

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    Jeremy,

    You seem to think...

    ...that Lou Pinella might be the savior for the World... Series, hope springing eternal...

    Wait... this is really getting off topic I think.

    I agree that whatever can be said grammatically for "faith" singly, as the referent, or

    theologically as a powerful affirmation of faith as a gift, it is the weaker argument.

    Taking the phrase as a whole, and then showing systematically that all the parts of the

    whole are granted, is not only safer exegetically, but ties the doctrine together with the

    rest of Scripture in an unanswerable punch.

    One can then go back to this passage and affirm any single piece of the verse, including

    faith, as a portion of the gift given. And know that Paul had such in his mind when he

    spoke of them collectively.

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    Originally Posted by Contra_Mundum

    Jeremy,

    You seem to think...

    ...that Lou Pinella might be the savior for the World... Series, hope springing eternal...

    Wait... this is really getting off topic I think.

    I agree that whatever can be said grammatically for "faith" singly, as the referent, or

    theologically as a powerful affirmation of faith as a gift, it is the weaker argument.

    Taking the phrase as a whole, and then showing systematically that all the parts of the

    whole are granted, is not only safer exegetically, but ties the doctrine together with the

    rest of Scripture in an unanswerable punch.

    One can then go back to this passage and affirm any single piece of the verse, including

    faith, as a portion of the gift given. And know that Paul had such in his mind when he

    spoke of them collectively.

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