ZWH AIWNIOS
c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Sun Oct 20 02:33:22 EDT 2002
on 10/19/02 10:11 PM, Iver Larsen wrote:
> If you are asking about the Greek text, you need to realize that the order
> AIWNIOS ZWH occurs three times only: John 17:3, Acts 13:46 and 1 Tim 6:12.
> The order ZWH AIWNIOS occurs 40 times.
>
> The "standard" word order in Greek is ZWH AIWNIOS, just as the standard word
> order in English is the opposite: "eternal life".
>
> When AIWNIOS is moved before ZWH in Greek, there is likely to be an added
> focus on the meaning component carried by AIWNIOS as compared to the meaning
> carried by ZWH, but it could also be a stylistic variance without any clear
> difference in meaning, at least for John 17:3, where one order follows the
> other.
Iver,
Should we not consider the article in this discussion? Look here:
JOHN 17:3 hAUTH DE ESTIN hH AIWNIOS ZWH hINA GINWSKWSIN SE TON MONON
ALHQINON QEON KAI hON APESTEILAS IHSOUN CRISTON.
ACTS 13:46 PARRHSIASAMENOI TE hO PAULOS KAI hO BARNABAS EIPAN: hUMIN HN
ANAGKAION PRWTON LALHQHNAI TON LOGON TOU QEOU: EPEIDH APWQEISQE AUTON KAI
OUK AXIOUS KRINETE hEAUTOUS THS AIWNIOU ZWHS, IDOU STREFOMEQA EIS TA EQNH.
1TIM. 6:12 AGWNIZOU TON KALON AGWNA THS PISTEWS, EPILABOU THS AIWNIOU ZWHS,
EIS hHN EKLHQHS KAI hWMOLOGHSAS THN KALHN hOMOLOGIAN ENWPION POLLWN
MARTURWN.
And then look at these:
1JOHN 1:2 KAI hH ZWH EFANERWQH, KAI hEWRAKAMEN KAI MARTUROUMEN KAI
APAGGELLOMEN hUMIN THN ZWHN THN AIWNION hHTIS HN PROS TON PATERA KAI
EFANERWQH hHMIN -
1JOHN 2:25 KAI hAUTH ESTIN hH EPAGGELIA hHN AUTOS EPHGGEILATO hHMIN, THN
ZWHN THN AIWNION.
The rest I believe look like this:
JOHN 17:2 KAQWS EDWKAS AUTWi EXOUSIAN PASHS SARKOS, hINA PAN hO DEDWKAS
AUTWi DWSHi AUTOIS ZWHN AIWNION.
I have a difficult time understanding your emphasis on emphasis, in light of
article-adj-noun pattern in all three samples where the adj is in front of
the noun.
This does not seem like a marked construction.
greetings, clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
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