John 12:27 DIA TOUTO

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Oct 18 10:00:12 EDT 1998


At 8:47 PM -0500 10/17/98, John M. Harkins wrote:
>Re: John 12:27 --Is there a grammatical or logical referent for DIA TOUTO
>in the Greek text itself? e.g. possibly 12:23 hINA DOXASQH hO hUIOS TOU
>ANQRWPOU or 12:27 itself hH YUCH MOU TETARAKTAI or 12:28 PATER DOXASON SOU
>TO ONOMA.

I think that I would indeed refer it back to 12:23 ELHLUQEN hH WRA hINA
DOXASQHi hO hUIOS TOU ANQRWPOU. The intervening text indicates (as clearly
as the Johannine formulations ever indicate anything) that "the hour has
come for the Son of Man to be glorified" refers precisely to the upcoming
crucifixion and death of Jesus. Therefore the text in question, DIA TOUTO
HLQON EIS THN WRAN TAUTHN must surely mean "That (i.e. in order to be
glorified in death) is why I came to this hour."

Carl W. Conrad
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