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QUESTION—How are the two nouns related in the genitive construction ἀδελφὸς Ἰακώβου ‘brother of James’? Ἀδελφός ‘brother’ expresses the role relationship to the genitive ‘James’: he is related to James as a brother. He is a brother of James and half-brother of Jesus [AB, BNTC, EBC, Hie, ICC, Law, Lg, NIBC, NTC, TBST, TNTC, WBC; NET]. His relationship to James is simply used for identification [WBC; NET], since Jude was a common name and two of Jesus’ disciples had the same name [NET]. The name
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