Rev.22:2
RUSSELL RANKIN
rrankin at isd.net
Tue Jan 16 02:48:38 EST 2001
Harold,
Interesting. The Kurt Aland, and others, Text also breaks v.1 from v.2 but
are not consistent in their use of KAI as the beginning of an new sentence.
I realize KAI can, and does have more than one use, one being a Hebraism
introducing a new thought, anther connecting ideas, and still another
linking a sentence together.
What about KAI in Rev.22:1 introducing v.1 with v.2 as one unit? Then KAI
introducing v.3? The same with v.4, v.5, and v.6 respectively beginning a
new thought with KAI? Verses 1-2 then list the things EDEIZEN MOI ("he
showed me"): river, throne, street, tree of life/leaves? Is this
grammatically possible?
I see that "are" can be understood and have no difficulty with supplying it,
but wonder about other possibilities.
Thanks to you and others for explaining.
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Harold R. Holmyard III
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 9:49 PM
To: Biblical Greek
Subject: [b-greek] RE: Rev.22:2
Dear Russell,
You ask:
>
>I notice some translations supply "were" in the last of Rev.22:2. Others
>"are". Is there a need for an understood verb in KAI TA FULLA TOU CULOU
EIS
>QERAPEIAN TWN EQNWN (and the leaves of the trees for healing the nations)?
>Or is a verb understood by or dependant upon an earlier verb or the tense
of
>the participles in the context?
The UBS Greek NT editors thought that the sentence ended between 22:1 and
22:2. That does seem a good logical break. If verse 1 was supposed to
continue, one would expect at least a word like KAI ("and") at the
beginning of 22:2. Yet I wondered if there might be a series with three
main items (river of life, tree, no curse: v. 1, v. 2, and v. 3). However
both verses 1 and 3 have main verbs; it seems odd that the middle item in a
series would lack the verb. No, I think that verse 2 should have a verb
supplied.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
Dallas, TX
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