Jn 7.37
N & RJ Hanscamp
nar.hanscamp at clear.net.nz
Wed Aug 4 03:32:49 EDT 1999
Nigel wrote
>>Second is the perenial problem of punctuation in this passage. Comments on the UBS stop after PINETW would be appreciated
Carl wrote
>>With Jim, I don't understand why this punctuation should be thought problematic. Verse 38 certainly continues with a statement closely related to the preceding, and the sense is not going to be affected radically by whether we read a full stop after PINETW, so far as I can see. Personally, I'm one of those nuts who likes to uses semicolons in my writing in order to indicate that my periodic structure hasn't yet reached its end; perhaps that comes from Greek and Latin training; I rather think modern English is overeager to spit out a period-mark after every clause.
Thank you both for your comments. What I read from what you said was that where the stop goes in the Greek does not matter to the language.
IMO the sense does change drastically depending on the punctuation - from the hUDATOS ZWONTOS flowing from the believers KOILIA (stop after PINETW), to it flowing from Jesus' KOILIA (stop after EME in v38). But this decision is a theological one, not syntactical/grammatical.
Thankyou
Nigel
Nigel and Rebecca Hanscamp
Trinity Methodist Theological College
Auckland Consortium of Theological Education, New Zealand
Email: nar.hanscamp at clear.net.nz
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