1 John 1:1-Genitive of Connection?

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Mon Dec 20 14:24:36 EST 1999


Actually the verse is 1 John 1:1 and I think that most would say that is a
descriptive genetive

At 02:15 PM 12/20/1999 EST, you wrote:
>Dear B-Greekers,
>
>1 John 1:5 reads:
>
>hO HN AP' ARXHS hO AKHKOAMEN hO hEWRAKAMEN TOIS OFQALMOIS hHMWN hO EQEASAMEQA 
>KAI hAI XEIRES hHMWN EYHLAFHSAN PERI TOU LOGOU THS ZWHS.
>
>In his _First John Reader_ S.M. Baugh writes that THS ZWHS is a "genitive of 
>connection." (where the word in the genitive highlights the subject matter of 
>discourse. In this case, the "word of life.")
>
>What is a genitive of connection? Is this another category formulated to 
>classify and tag syntactical functions? I've looked in other grammars and 
>have yet to find a "genitive of connection." Maybe I've been looking in the 
>wrong places, but I would love to know more about this subject.
>
>Edgar Foster
>
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