58 Days of Easter – 1 Corinthians 15:47

As a way to prepare for Easter, I invite you to join me on a 58 day journey through the 58 verses of 1 Corinthians 15 in Greek. At this point, there will no longer be any videos or PowerPoint PDFs, though I may finish those at some later time in the future.

1 Corinthians 15:47

47 ὁ πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος ἐκ γῆς χοϊκός, ὁ δεύτερος ἄνθρωπος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ.

47 The first person (was) made out of dust from the earth; the second person (was) from heaven.

ὁ πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος – nom. subj. of an elliptical sentence. Attributive use of the ord. adj. Asyndeton [W658].

ἐκ γῆς – prep. phrase.

χοϊκός, – gen. of material (“made out of”) [W91-92].

ὁ δεύτερος ἄνθρωπος – nom. subj. of an elliptical sentence. Attributive use of the ord. adj. Asyndeton [W658].

ἐξ οὐρανοῦ. – prep. phrase.

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