connected with the preceding phrase, τέκνα θεοῦ ‘children of God’, not with the phrase which follows [El, ICC, Lg, MNTC, My, NTC, TH, TNTC, WBC]. b. μέσον with genitive object (LN 83.9) (BAGD 3.b. p. 508): ‘in the midst of’ [BAGD, Ea, HNTC, ICC, Mou, NTC, Pl, WEC; KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV, TNT], ‘amid’ [Lns], ‘in’ [NIV, REB, TEV], ‘among’ [LN], ‘surrounded by’ [WBC; NJB]. This word is an adverb functioning as a preposition [EGT, ICC, Lg]. c. γενεά (LN 11.4) (BAGD 2. p. 154): ‘generation’ [BAGD, Ea,
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