ANWQEN in John 3:3 ff
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Dec 26 11:48:49 EST 2002
At 11:25 AM -0500 12/26/02, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>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?
This has been discussed many times on the list; you might search the
archives using the word ANWQEN as your trigger. One significant little
thread on it was in June of 1998. One might prefer to understand ANWQEN
either exclusively as "again" or exclusively as "from above," but there are
many who think that this is one point at which the evangelist deliberately
chose a word that could bear more than one sense.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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