KYLE: Literary Typing Prayer tag at Eph 1:15ff (possible error)

Karl Fritz Jr.
Karl Fritz Jr. Member Posts: 122 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

This tagging looks wrong to me (literary typing-prayer should extend to verse 23).  Or am I wrong here?  Maybe someone else can tell me if I'm looking at this properly.  And I think Kyle's name is the right one to emphasize here.  See screenshot:

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,491

    This tagging looks wrong to me (literary typing-prayer should extend to verse 23).  Or am I wrong here?  Maybe someone else can tell me if I'm looking at this properly.

    I think you are looking at it correctly but I think there are questions about which verses are actually prayer. For example:

    Eph 1:15–23 constitutes an extended thanksgiving which, like the preceding berakah, forms one long sentence. In terms of its overall structure this pericope can be divided into three major elements: (1) the thanksgiving proper in vv 15, 16a, followed by (2) an intercessory prayer-report in vv 16b–19, which shades into (3) confessional material in praise of God’s power in Christ’s resurrection and exaltation and the use of this material to highlight the role of the Church in God’s purposes in vv 20–23.

     Andrew T. Lincoln, Ephesians, vol. 42, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1990), 47.

    If the is correct, it may explain why the tagging does not extend after verse 19 into the confessional material.

    But great question!

  • Karl Fritz Jr.
    Karl Fritz Jr. Member Posts: 122 ✭✭

    Thanks Graham. That makes sense to me. The prayer content ends with the intercessory requests that “they may know what is” ____3 things ending in vs. 19____. The transition is fuzzy, but that does make sense of the tagging, too. Very helpful, Graham!