| 23. Linguistic Exegesis The verse employs two instances of εἰ {εἰ | eí} to introduce content clauses reporting what was declared concerning the Messiah: that He must suffer and that He would be first from among the dead to rise. The predicate adjectives pathētos {παθητός | pa-thē-tós} and prōtos {πρῶτος | prô-tos} agree with christos {χριστός | chris-tós} in nominative case, with the copula understood in each clause. The prepositional phrase ex anastaseōs nekrōn {ἐξ ἀναστάσεως νεκρῶν | ex a-na-stá-se-ōs ne-krôn} marks the sphere from which He is first, while the verb mellei {μέλλει | mél-lei} takes the infinitive katangellein {καταγγέλλειν | ka-tan-gél-lein} to express destined action. The fronted accusative phōs {φῶς | phôs} receives emphasis by preceding its verb–infinitive complement, and the dative tō te laō kai tois ethnēsin {τῷ τε λαῷ καὶ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν | tôi te la-ôi kaí toîs éth-ne-sin} uses the correlative te…kai to bind “the people” and “the nations” as joint recipients of the proclamation. |