hOUTWS Jn3.16 "In this way"

Joseph A. Weaks jweaks at delta.is.tcu.edu
Sat Apr 1 04:08:28 EST 2000


Listers,
I have often made the point of explaining to church folk the function 
of hOUTWS in John 3, as an adverb of hOUTOS meaning 'this-ly' or 'in 
this way'.  I have a web page called This Weaks' Hermeneutic where I 
post a weekly lectionary reflection as a resource for preachers, and 
this week I made similar comments.  You see the whole statement on 
This Weaks' Hermeneutic at
http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~jweaks/herm.html

But I was surprised to read that Raymond Brown supports the popular 
reading of 'so' as an intensive of extent, that God loved the world 
'sooooooo much'.  It seemed silly to me, in the context of the whole 
chapter which speaks about the ways God has acted in the world. 
Anyone care to give me the argument for the intensive of extent 
interpretation of hOUTWS?
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+ Rev. Joseph A. Weaks
+ Pastor, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
+ Ph.D. Student in Biblical Studies, Brite Divinity
+ Minister of the Word
+ jweaks at delta.is.tcu.edu
+ http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~jweaks/
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