theos and ho theos'

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Thu Mar 1 11:48:40 EST 2001


So where lies the weight of current scholarship, with the anarthrous QEOS of John
1:lb reflecting a qualitative description or (count-noun) predicate nominative?  Has
current scholarship effectively moved beyond the conclusion of  William Barclay that
because here there is "no definite article in front of [QEOS] it becomes a
description, and more of an adjective than a noun.  The translation then becomes, to
put it rather clumsily, 'The Word was in the same class as God, belonged to the same
order of being as God'."? -- Many Witnesses, One Lord (Westminster, 1963)

Solomn Landers

Bruce Allen Randall Jr wrote:

> If I understand your question it seems that the versions listed are
> understood to imply similar meaning.  There is probably a difference
> between "the word was divine" and "the word was a divine being.  The later
> has expressed an "indefinite" predicate nomnitive while the former a
> "qualitative" description.  Wallace gives a helpful treatment of this
> problem in discussing Colwell's Construction on 266-269 of his EXEGETICAL
> SYNTAX (cf. Robertson, 767).
>
> B. Randall
>




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