πρὸς

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 πρὸς

   pros

   to
2. sentence🔊 καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμᾶς εὐαγγελιζόμεθα τὴν πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἐπαγγελίαν γενομένην

   KAI hê-MEIS hy-MAS eu-an-ge-li-ZO-me-tha tên pros tous pa-TE-ras e-pan-ge-LI-an ge-no-ME-nên

   and we you we proclaim good news the to the fathers promise having happened

Exegesis

epangelian genomenēn {τὴν … ἐπαγγελίαν γενομένην | tēn … e-pan-ge-lí-an ge-no-mé-nēn}, where the article plus noun is modified by both the prepositional phrase pros tous pateras {πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας | prós tous pa-té-ras} ‘to the fathers’ and the attributive aorist participle genomenēn {γενομένην | ge-no-mé-nēn} ‘having been made’. The preposition pros with the accusative specifies the direction or recipients of the promise, while the aorist participle denotes the promise as a completed act in past time relative to the present proclamation. In the English renderings, this structure is represented by “the promise that was made to the fathers / our ancestors,” using a finite relative clause to express the participial modification and preserving the focus on the ancestral recipients of the promise. The formal reconstruction keeps closer to the sequence and terminology of the Greek (“fathers”), while the dynamic version substitutes “ancestors” for better contemporary clarity and slightly reshapes the verbal aspect as standard past tense “was made” to communicate the completed nature of the earlier divine commitment without specifying its fulfillment in this verse.