John 1:9
Posted: September 5th, 2012, 2:59 pm
John 1:9-10
9 Ήν το φως το άληθινον ὸ φωτιζει παντα άνθρωπον έρχομενον εις τον κοσμον 10 έν τῳ κοσμῳ ἠν ...
Translators take this verse two different ways. They are:
1. That was the true light, which lighteth every man coming into the world; and
2. That was the true light which, coming into the world, lighteth every man. (NET Bible supports this sense.)
Given the confusion (at least, to me), is this an example of poor Greek writing skills by a non-native Greek speaker or could it have been purposely written this way with the natural expectation that the reader would link έρχομενον εις τον κοσμον with the following έν τῳ κοσμῳ ήν and naturally read v9 per translation 2 above?
Is there a grammatical reason for structuring the sentence in this manner which seems confusing to us 2000 years later but may possibly have been quite ordinary back then?
Roger Hutchinson
9 Ήν το φως το άληθινον ὸ φωτιζει παντα άνθρωπον έρχομενον εις τον κοσμον 10 έν τῳ κοσμῳ ἠν ...
Translators take this verse two different ways. They are:
1. That was the true light, which lighteth every man coming into the world; and
2. That was the true light which, coming into the world, lighteth every man. (NET Bible supports this sense.)
Given the confusion (at least, to me), is this an example of poor Greek writing skills by a non-native Greek speaker or could it have been purposely written this way with the natural expectation that the reader would link έρχομενον εις τον κοσμον with the following έν τῳ κοσμῳ ήν and naturally read v9 per translation 2 above?
Is there a grammatical reason for structuring the sentence in this manner which seems confusing to us 2000 years later but may possibly have been quite ordinary back then?
Roger Hutchinson