Question on John 17:3

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 27 15:03:18 EST 1999


At 8:44 AM -0800 12/27/99, Robert W Meyers wrote:
>Would someone tell me whether the Granville Sharp rule
>has any applicability here?
>
>"The only True God" KAI "Jesus Christ Whom You sent?"
>
>Is the ON preceding APESTEILAS regarded as a second
>definite article disqualifying the Granville Sharp here?
>
>In that case, does it negate the possibility of identifying
>to two phrases as an identity?  (cf 1 John 5:20, etc)?

The text reads hON  APESTEILAS here; hON  is the relative pronoun acc. sg.
m.: "whom you sent." So no article is involved here at all, and no GS; a
distinction is clearly being made.


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