John 7:39

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 18 08:37:20 EDT 2000


At 6:55 AM -0500 4/18/00, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
>Dear Carl,
>     I agree with what you wrote about John 7:39 and John 1:9 KJV,  except
>for one small point. You write:
>
>I believe that most editors and readers now understand TO FWS TO ALHQINON
>as the subject of HN
>ERCOMENON, a periphrastic imperfect, but we should remember that this verse
>was understood and translated in the KJV with "He" = John the Baptist, as
>implicit subject of HN and TO FWS TO ALHQINON as the predicate nominative
>(and ERCOMENON EIS TON KOSMON as an anarthrous attributive participle to be
>construed with ANQRWPON ("which lightens every man that cometh into theworld."
>
>Carl, I think you should say that in the KJV of John 1:9 "He" = Jesus
>Christ. Jesus Christ was the true light. Verse 8 in the KJV says about
>John, "He was not that Light."
>

Thanks for the correction, Harold. Yes, of course, I was thinking of John
1:8 where the subject is implicitly John the Baptist.

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