{Yours} (hum(936e)). Predicate genitive, belong to you. All
the words in this verse and 23 are anarthrous, though not
indefinite, but definite. The English reproduces them all
properly without the definite article except kosmos (the
world), and even here just world will answer. Proper names do not
need the article to be definite nor do words for single objects
like world, life, death. Things present (enest(9374)a, second
perfect participle of enist(886d)i) and things to come divide two
classes. Few of the finer points of Greek syntax need more
attention than the absence of the article. We must not think of
the article as "omitted" (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 790). The
wealth of the Christian includes all things, all leaders, past,
present, future, Christ, and God. There is no room for partisan
wrangling here.
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