1 John 5:15

Ann Nyland accuratebibles at accuratebibles.com
Sun Jun 9 01:11:53 EDT 2002


But in fairness to you, David, you could have said "frogs" (well not quite)
because you were making a grammatical point about genitives and accusatives.
Your point didn't have a lot to do with present, aorist or so on.

I hope you are feeling better now!

Ann Nyland

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Thiele" <thielogian at yahoo.com>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, 9 June 2002 3:06
Subject: [b-greek] Re: 1 John 5:15


> Daniel,
>
> If I told you I put the mistake in deliberately to
> test you out, would you believe me?  No?  I wouldn't
> believe it either!  I think the after-effects of a
> bout of Malaria are a much more likely reason.
>
> Regards
>
> David
> David Thiele
> Pacific Adventist University
> Papua New Guinea
>
>  --- Daniel Walin <danserve4x at yahoo.com> wrote: > Ok,
> that makes good sense now.  Thanks for the
> > elucidation.
> >
> > Would AKOUEI be "heard" though?  I thought it was
> > present active indicative?
> >
> > Daniel Walin
> > Wichita Falls, Tx
> >
> >
> > --- David Thiele <thielogian at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Daniel,
> > >
> > > Try this for a hypothetical example:  hO QEOS
> > AKOUEI
> > > THN PROSEUXHN TOU PETROU.  If I've done that right
> > > it
> > > translates as "God heard the prayer of Peter".
> > > PROSEUXH is accusative; PETROS is genetive.  When
> > > that
> > > statement is abbreviated you can get this: hO QEOS
> > > AKOUEI TOU PETROU = God heard Peter.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > David
> > > David Thiele
> > > Pacific Adventist University
> > > Papua New Guinea





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