ZWH AIWNIOS

c stirling bartholomew cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Sun Oct 20 13:53:04 EDT 2002


Iver, 

on 10/20/02 4:15 AM, Iver Larsen wrote:

> Clay, what is your hypothesis?

See below,

> How would you explain the difference between hH AIWNIOS ZWH in John 17:3 and
> THN ZWHN THN AIWNION  in 1 John 1:2 and 2:25?  All three have the article,
> which is somewhat unusual for this phrase.
> 
 {snip}
> "Since the adjective in the arthrous NP in most of the books of the New
> Testament normally occurs before the noun, there is less possibility of
> exploiting word order for emphasis in an arthrous NP compared to an
> anarthrous NP."

That is exactly my hypothesis. It isn't kosher to say we have 40ish examples
of  ZWH preceding AIWNIOS  but only three of  AIWNIOS preceding  ZWH when
these tree examples are all arthrous and all but two of the 40 are
anarthrous. 

What we observe in the constituent order patterns for AIWNIOS ZWH is a
nearly even distribution of arthrous constructions and a totally one sided
distribution for anarthrous constructions.

So I would agree with your statement quoted from your article, I think
exploiting this issue in John 17:3 is grasping at straws.

greetings, clay


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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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