genitive in John 1:3 [correction]

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Dec 15 08:00:33 EST 2002


At 1:34 AM -0800 12/15/02, Harry  W. Jones wrote:
> PANTA  DI'  AUTOU EGENETO KAI CWRIS  AUTOU EGENETO OUDE hEN.
>
>Since the subject of EGENETO is *all things*---I believe that PANTA is
>being used
>attributively  as a neuter plural to the implied subject of EGENETO--- and
>since Christ(AUTOU) is the agency by which all things are brought into
>existence(ie, the subject is being acted upon) then the verb EGENETO would
>not have a direct object.

It would be far simpler to say that PANTA is a substantive functioning as
the subject of EGENETO, rather than to call it an attributive adjective
modifying an implicit subject, although I think what you mean, Harry, is
not so unclear as it looks at first. As for EGENETO, this is one of those
instances where GINOMAI actually functions as a passive, as a few older MP1
aorists continued to do even after the coming-into-vogue of the -QH_ MP2
forms. And, as I think has already been stated earlier in this thread, DI'
AUTOU indicates intermediate agency: "all things were brought into being
through (the Word)."
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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