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by Barry Hofstetter
July 28th, 2014, 6:05 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Talking about the future in a past tense narrative text
Replies: 27
Views: 5885

Re: Talking about the future in a past tense narrative text

Τοῦτο δὲ εἶπεν περὶ τοῦ πνεύματος οὗ ἔμελλον λαμβάνειν οἱ πιστεύοντες εἰς αὐτόν· οὔπω γὰρ ἦν πνεῦμα ἅγιον, ὅτι Ἰησοῦς οὐδέπω ἐδοξάσθη. Is this tense construction the "normal" way to talk about an event in Koine Greek, which is "future" from the point of view of the narrative tim...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 28th, 2014, 5:54 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 2:6: attributive or predicate participles?
Replies: 41
Views: 11332

Re: John 2:6: attributive or predicate participles?

There is nothing at all ambiguous about the sentence "I saw six girls singing in the park." No native English speaker hears this as in any way ambiguous. I saw six girls. What were they doing? Singing in the park. Where were you when you saw them? Duh, I was in the park... Now, I think th...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 27th, 2014, 6:47 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 2:6: attributive or predicate participles?
Replies: 41
Views: 11332

Re: John 2:6: attributive or predicate participles?

There is nothing at all ambiguous about the sentence "I saw six girls singing in the park." No native English speaker hears this as in any way ambiguous. I saw six girls. What were they doing? Singing in the park. Where were you when you saw them? Duh, I was in the park... Now, I think thi...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 24th, 2014, 5:20 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Joh 17,2 some questions on the sentence
Replies: 12
Views: 4456

Re: Joh 17,2 some questions on the sentence

For what it's worth, Barrett in his commentary on John says that αὐτοῖς shows that πᾶν (even though neuter singular) refers to the disciples: by using the neuter singular John stresses the unity of the disciples ("the whole" rather than "all"). That strikes me as an over theolog...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 24th, 2014, 5:00 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 2:6: attributive or predicate participles?
Replies: 41
Views: 11332

Re: Revealing our uncritical assumptions as English speakers

I have difficulty here because my mother tongue expresses the two situations in sentences with completely different structures. Grammar is often a transformation between languages, rather than an impartial / independent analysis of a language. If your language (Korean?) doesn't make a differentiati...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 24th, 2014, 12:40 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Joh 17,2 some questions on the sentence
Replies: 12
Views: 4456

Re: Joh 17,2 some questions on the sentence

Well, this is all highly annoying. I think my reading of the text makes better sense out of the syntax, but I'll have to look at this more closely. As I tell my students, if everyone disagrees with you on your understanding of the text, then it's probably you, not them...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 24th, 2014, 6:57 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Joh 17,2 some questions on the sentence
Replies: 12
Views: 4456

Re: Joh 17,2 some questions on the sentence

καθὼς ἔδωκας αὐτῷ ἐξουσίαν πάσης σαρκός, ἵνα πᾶν ὃ δέδωκας αὐτῷ δώσῃ αὐτοῖς ζωὴν αἰώνιον. This passage just isn't that difficult, people. πᾶν ὃ is the direct object of δέδωκας. ζωὴν αἰώνιον is the direct object of δώσῃ, and stands in apposition to πᾶν ὃ as a particular item specifying part of the πᾶ...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 23rd, 2014, 8:45 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Carl is 80!
Replies: 5
Views: 1990

Re: Carl is 80!

Natalem diem felicem, magister honorate! πασα χαρα σοι πληθυνθειη...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 23rd, 2014, 7:07 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: the meaning of the aorist imperative in Matt. 6: 10//Lk. 11:
Replies: 3
Views: 5060

Re: the meaning of the aorist imperative in Matt. 6: 10//Lk.

Jeremias may be right, but if so, it is based on context and other broader hermeneutical considerations and not the simple use of the aorist imperative. I'm with Stirling on this one. I have actually never read Fanning :o but I have been using this definition of the use of the aorist imperative sinc...
by Barry Hofstetter
July 22nd, 2014, 6:05 am
Forum: Vocabulary
Topic: Χειμων in John 10.22
Replies: 4
Views: 2570

Re: Χειμων in John 10.22

Several times in his gospel John explains Jewish customs. This has led many interpreters to believe that he is writing to a primarily Gentile audience who would not necessarily know when the celebration took place.

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