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God at the Center: Greek Emphatic Word Order in the New Testament

First comes firstOne of the first thingssomeone else--and return to focusing on Him,
journalism students learn is "the invertedthe one who has "rescued us out of the
pyramid": they learn to cram all of the mostdominion of darkness and has brought us into
important points of their article into thethe kingdom of the Son He loves, in Whom we
opening paragraph. In normal English usage,have redemption, the forgiveness of sins"
the most important person or thing should go(Colossians 1:13-14).Left to ourselves, we
at the head of almost any list.Biblical Greekwould be a barren field, a collapsed
employs similar usage: the most importantbuilding. But God makes His chosen ones into
item usually comes first in a list. Anda verdant paradisial garden, a gloriously
because, unlike English, Greek does not needsplendid temple. Let's give the credit to
word order to determine how a word is used inWhom  it  belongs.Want  to  go  deeper?
a sentence--it has word endings for that--it
can leverage word order to indicate emphasis.If you want to explore other places where
The beginning and then the end of a sentence,"of God" (tou theou) occurs in an emphatic,
a clause, or a list is the place where thefirst position, look up these verses. You
emphasis falls in Greek. Unfortunately, wewill see how in these instances also, the
lose much of this emphasis in Englishemphatic word order of the original does not
translations, because the translators feelsurvive  the  translation process. Acts 12:22
forced to rearrange the words back into
normal English order.Good example of emphaticRomans  13:4  (twice)
usageConsider 1 Corinthians 3:9, which the
NIV renders, "For we are God's fellow1  Corinthians  1:24  (twice)
workers; you are God's field, God's
building." A more literal rendering would be:1  Corinthians  2:7
"God's fellow workers we are; God's field you
are, God's building." Paul is making a triple1  Corinthians  6:9
emphasis that we almost completely lose in
English: God is the important One, not what2  Corinthians  6:4
we are or what you are. [TOP]The context
bears out this emphasis. The Corinthian2  Corinthians  11:2
Christians are wrangling about whose group is
the best, the one that claims Paul, or that2  Corinthians  11:7
one that names Apollos, or Cephas (Peter), or
Christ (see 1:10-12). Apparently, theEphesians  2:8
Corinthians are in danger of splitting into
competing factions or sects, each thinking ofHebrews  6:5
themselves as superior to the others. Perhaps
their fellowship is deteriorating so muchJames  1:1
that they are discounting their rival
factions and even writing them off as no1  Peter  2:16
longer members of God's kingdom. Whether that
has happened yet, they certainly seem to be1  Peter  4:14
moving in that direction.Paul's antidote to
this sectarian poison is pointing all of them1  Peter  4:17  (2nd  time)
to God. He notes that he and Apollos are not
in competition or leading rival factions.2  Peter  3:5
Instead, he says, "God's servants we are."
Similarly, the Corinthians' organic growth as2  Peter  3:12
Christians is because "God's field you are."
Their organizational growth is because theyJude 4Here are two more instances, using
are "God's building."God at the centerHere is"Jesus our Lord" (1 Corinthians 9:1) and "of
a lesson for all of us. Let's get our eyesthe Lord" (1 Corinthians 10:26), quoting
off of ourselves--our status, ourPsalm 24:1. (The Hebrew has the same emphatic
achievements, our position relative toword order.



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