question
Hi Dennis,
Can you explain this construction in James 1:25? Is τὸν introducing an appositive?
James 1:25 (NA27)
ὁ δὲ παρακύψας εἰς νόμον τέλειον τὸν τῆς ἐλευθερίας καὶ παραμείνας, οὐκ ἀκροατὴς ἐπιλησμονῆς γενόμενος ἀλλὰ ποιητὴς ἔργου, οὗτος μακάριος ἐν τῇ ποιήσει αὐτοῦ ἔσται.
Response
Yes. Just as our project’s Grammatical Commentary has a set of derelativizer constructions, it also has a set of dearticularizer constructions, and τὸν τῆς with article followed by genitive is one of them. τὸν becomes a mini appositive = the one that. “Looking into the perfect Law, the one providing true freedom.” I can give you a list of all such constructions if you are interested.