EIS AIWNAS AIWNWN

Raziel613 at aol.com Raziel613 at aol.com
Sat Dec 4 11:04:34 EST 1999


In a message dated 99-12-04 00:01:38 EST, you write:

>   I have a question concerning this phrase that is found in the book of
>  > Rev and translated "for ever and ever". In every place it appaers these 5
>  > words are all in the Greek with one exception.. Rev 14:11. For some 
reason
>  > when John wrote this verse he left the definite article out. Does anybody
>  > have any thoughts as to why he did? Thank you all.  Jim  Kirby
>  
>  Kirby,
>  
>  Spent some time on this without much in the way of results. The exact
>  form found in Rev 14:11 EIS AIWNAS AIWNWN is not found anywhere else
>  either in the NT or the LXX.
>  
>  However an anarthrous form with a similar sense is found in the Psalms
>  and Daniel (LXX only):

I wonder if this is another one of John's "solecisms" where he is carrying 
over the exact grammatical forms to signal OT allusions.  Beale's The Book of 
Revelation (NIGTC)  argues that many Daniel allusions in Revelation are 
intentional and that Daniel is a framework for the entire book. If the 
anarthrous form in a similar sense is also found in Daniel and Psalms that 
may explain John's use of it here.


James Maeser





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