Pros

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sun May 23 12:17:15 EDT 1999


At 09:31 AM 5/23/99 -0400, you wrote:

>>true, of course, that pros has a range of meanings.  Properly speaking,
>>though, it is a directional preposition rather than a symbiotic one.  So,
>>what use does "sun" serve if "pros" means "with"?  Mere synonym?
>
>Jim, did you actually READ what I wrote? The only thing I said that hinted
>at anything "symbiotic" was:

I didnt say that you did Carl.  That was my statement.  In short- pros is
directional and sun is symbiotic.  Pros ton theon means "The Word was
towards God- Godward, a sign pointing at God.  Sun ton theon would imply
"the word was WITH God (in some sort of symbiotic relationship.)"

>The reference here concerns Greek phonology alone. There's nothing about
>PROS being a "symbiotic" preposition.

I realize that- nor is it.  Sun is the symbiotic preposition.  In fact, my
statement quoted by you above says precisely that.  And I do not believe
that I at any point said otherwise.


Best,

Jim

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