ANWQEN in John 3:3 ff

bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Thu Dec 26 11:25:43 EST 2002


Hi everyone.
I was reading in the Gospel according to John and came to the passage where Jesus said to Nicodemus:...unless one is born again... I was surprised that the word translated as again was not PALIN but ANWQEN. When I looked up ANWQEN I found that it is a cognate of ANA and its first translation was suggested to be; from above.
Would Nicodemus have had a clue that Jesus was speaking about something other than a physical birth by Jesus' choice of ANWQEN over PALIN?
Thank you 
Bert de Haan 
Arthur Ontario




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