Adversative use of KAI in 1 John 2:1?
Danny Andre' Dixon
bereandad at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 13 16:18:42 EDT 2002
Brett:
It seems to me that the contingency of sin would not
inhere in the KAI. Rather in the fact of the third
class conditional EAN and the subjunctive HAMARTHi.
Neither a choice of "and" or "but" would reverse the
concept.
Danny
--- Mark Wilson <emory2oo2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bret:
>
> You wrote:
>
> ------
> >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.
> --------
>
> 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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