1 John 3:6a

Jason A. Hare language_lover64801 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 20 17:10:28 EDT 2001


I'm totally in agreement.  If he was saying, "Everyone who does not abide
in him sins," then it would be:

PAS hO MH MENWN EN AUTWi hAMARTANEI...

MH is used to negate participial substantives.

Jason

> Mark Wilson asks:
> 
> 1 John 3:6a
> 
> PAS hO EN AUTWi MENWN OUC hAMARTANEI...
> 
> "Everyone abiding in him does not sin..."
> 
> How do we know what OUC is negating?
> 
> 
> My understanding is that OUC generally stands with the indicative mood and
> all othe moods usually take MH.  If this is the case for the negative to
> stand with MENWN (a participle) it would needs be MH.  Since hAMARTANEI is
> indicative it is best to associate the negative OUC with it in this case.
> 
> Dale Greenlee



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