John 6:35
nick lunn
nick_lunn at wycliffe.org
Sat Aug 24 13:48:10 EDT 2002
On the variation in John 6:35, two comments:
1. For what it is worth, the Textus Receptus and the Majority Text
have both verbs in the aorist subjunctive (probably thought not to be
sufficiently significant to be indicated in the UBS GkNT). The future
indicative is solely an Alexandrian reading.
(Out of interest, note that the parallelism in Rev 18:23 has the
aorist subjunctive in both lines, in TR, MT and also in UBS GkNT).
2. Another possible, and perhaps more likely, explanation, which
really has little to do with Greek, would be an appeal to Hebrew
parallelism. Several commentaries take these words as a parallelism.
Jesus does not really intend to make a distinction between the
hungering and the thirst - the two clauses make a single semantic
unit. It is a common feature of such Hebrew parallelism that the verb
form will vary in the second line. A typical example of this is Psalm
2:1, 'Why do the nations rage (qatal); and the peoples imagine
(yiqtol) a vain thing?'
There is a whole article on this by Randy Buth, entitled 'Taxonomy and
Function of Hebrew Tense-Shifting', START 15, 1986. (START used to be
published by SIL/Wycliffe Bible Translators).
Hope this is of some interest.
Nick Lunn
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Kenya
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Subject: [b-greek] John 6:35
Author: <babc2 at attbi.com> at Internet
Date: 8/23/02 8:28 PM
EIPEN AUTOIS hO IHSOUS: EGO EIMI hO
ARTOS THS ZWHS: hO ERCOMENOS PROS EME OU
MH PEINASHi, KAI hO PISTEUWN EIS EME OU MH
DIYHSEI PWPOTE.
The last part of this verse puzzles me. The two clauses
hO ERCOMENOS PROS EME OU MH PEINASHi kai
hO PISTEUWN EIS EME OU MH DIYHSEI
seem to me completely parallel, but why is the verb in the first
clause in the aorist subjunctive while the verb in the second clause
is future indicative?
I'm sure it's something that ought to be obvious, but it isn't to
me.Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at attbi.com
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
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