hO GEGONEN in John 1:3

Jon R. Venema Grammata at compuserve.com
Tue Nov 17 16:10:44 EST 1998



On the question of hO GEGONEN in John 1:3, it should be calculated that 
the option of "redundancy" does mar the inverted parallelism.  In
near-lyrical
poetry, words may be pressed or stretched.  hO GEGONEN may carry the 
sense of source (cf. 1:3a-b), "'that which has created' IN HIM was LIFE 
(understand Eternal Life) in him, and the Life was the-Light-of-Men" =
revelatory.

Just a thought for the discussion mill.

Jon



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