Translation Help Needed
Steve Lovullo
SLovullo at etcconnect.com
Fri Dec 27 15:32:41 EST 2002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spencer Gee [mailto:Muledeer at Safe-mail.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 11:56 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Translation Help Needed
>
>
> I need some help with the following sentence in a Koine Greek texbook.
>
> LEGEI OUN PROFHTHS EKEINOS hON DIDASKEI IHSOUS:
> PISTEUW.
>
> The first part-Is it "That one is a prophet and he says" or
> is it "That
> prophet says"?
>
> The second part-
> is it "Whom jesus teaches I believe"? or is it "Jesus teaches whom I
> believe"? Does jesus teach the people I already believe or
> does he teach
> people and then I believe them? (or I could be completely wrong)
>
> I'm not sure why 'Pi' in the last word is capitalized. It
> looks like the
> first part of the sentence leads to a quotation but the lesson on
> quotations does not come until the next chapter. To sum up; I'm just a
> very confused person. Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.
Spencer, the reason the P is capitalized is that PISTEUW is a direct quote.
PROFHTHS EKEINOS is the subject of LEGEI. hON is a masculine singular
accusative relative pronoun whose antecedent is PROFHTHS EKEINOS and which
is the direct object of DIDASKEI. IHSOUS is the subject of DIDASKEI in this
relative clause. So what it all means is, "Therefore that prophet whom Jesus
teaches says, 'I believe.'"
Steve Lo Vullo
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