τοῦ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τοῦ

   tou

   the
2. sentence🔊 ἄρα οὖν ζῶντος τοῦ ἀνδρὸς μοιχαλὶς χρηματίσει ἐὰν γένηται ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ ἐὰν δὲ ἀποθάνῃ ὁ ἀνήρ ἐλευθέρα ἐστὶν ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τοῦ μὴ εἶναι αὐτὴν μοιχαλίδα γενομένην ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ

   A-ra oun ZON-tos tou an-DROS moi-kha-LIS khre-ma-TI-sei e-AN GE-nê-tai an-DRI he-TE-rô e-AN de a-po-THA-nê ho a-NÊR e-leu-THE-ra es-TIN a-PO tou NO-mou tou mê EI-nai au-TÊN moi-kha-LI-da ge-no-ME-nên an-DRI he-TE-rô

   accordingly then living the husband an adulteress will be called if becomes to a man another if but dies the husband free is from the law the not to be her an adulteress having become to a man another

Exegesis

The genitive absolute zontos tou andros {ζῶντος τοῦ ἀνδρός | zôn-tos toû an-drós} ‘while the husband is living’ establishes the temporal setting for the first condition.

A second conditional clause appears with ean de apothanē ho anēr {ἐάν δὲ ἀποθάνῃ ὁ ἀνήρ | e-an dé a-po-thánē ho a-nḗr} ‘but if the husband dies’, leading to the declarative eleuthera estin apo tou nomou {ἐλευθέρα ἐστὶν ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου | e-leu-thé-ra es-tín a-pó toû nó-mou} ‘she is free from the law,’ which denotes her changed legal status.

The articular infinitive construction tou mē einai autēn moindreida genomenēn antri heterō {τοῦ μὴ εἶναι αὐτὴν μοιχαλίδα γενομένην ἀνδρί ἑτέρῳ | toû mē ei-nai au-tḗn moi-kha-LÍ-da ge-no-MÉ-nēn an-drí he-TÉ-rō} functions as an explanatory result: it explains why she is no longer an adulteress after entering a new marriage when the first husband has died. The balanced conditional structure underscores Paul’s analogy about believers’ relationship to law—bondage under its terms and liberation through a decisive change.