| 14. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the genitive absolute clause mē peithomenou autou {μὴ πειθομένου αὐτοῦ | mḗ pei-tho-mé-nou au-toû}, marking a circumstantial condition best rendered temporally as “Since he was not persuaded.” The conjunction de {δὲ | dè} then connects to the main verb hēsychasamen {ἡσυχάσαμεν | hē-sy-khá-sa-men}, narrating the group’s shift to silence, while the participle eipontes {εἰπόντες | ei-pón-tes} introduces the accompanying speech. In the direct quotation tou kyriou to thelema ginestho {Τοῦ κυρίου τὸ θέλημα γινέσθω | Toû ky-rí-ou tò thé-le-ma gi-nés-thō}, the genitive tou kyriou modifies thelema as a possessive genitive, and the present imperative ginestho expresses an open-ended wish for the Lord’s will. The translation renders the participial condition as a temporal clause and adapts the imperative into idiomatic English optative forms to preserve submission. |