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Spliced into Abundance: The Grammar of Displacement and Participation in ἐνεκεντρίσθης

Εἰ δέ τινες τῶν κλάδων ἐξεκλάσθησαν, σὺ δὲ ἀγριέλαιος ὢν ἐνεκεντρίσθης ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ συγκοινωνὸς τῆς ῥίζης καὶ τῆς πιότητος τῆς ἐλαίας ἐγένου, (Romans 11:17)

If indeed some of the branches were broken off, but you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a co-sharer of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

A Conditional World Reassembled: How Syntax Reorders Belonging

The verse is governed by a first-class conditional structure introduced by Εἰ, a construction that does not speculate hypothetically but assumes the reality of what it states, thereby compelling the reader to reason from an accepted premise.… Learn Koine Greek

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