Adversative use of KAI in 1 John 2:1?
Mark Wilson
emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 13 11:42:04 EDT 2002
Bret:
You wrote:
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>2:1, especially his use of KAI:
>
>TAUTA GRAFW HUMIN HINA MH HAMARTHTE KAI EAN TIS HAMARTHI
>
>The use of KAI here seems to be adversative ("but") rather than conjunctive
>("and") since John is clearly not writing to get them to sin. In my
>reading
>KAI usually seems to have the idea of "and", "even" or "namely," but I
>can't
>remember seeing this nuance before.
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Did you note the change in person from hAHARTHTE to hAHARTHi?
In this verse, the purpose for writing is that "you all"
might not sin. You appear to be taking this as, "I am
writing for TWO reasons here...that "you all" not sin AND if
"you all" do sin..."
To avoid this, John goes from YOU ALL to if ONE DOES.
Mark Wilson
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