John 17
Wayne Leman
wayne_leman at sil.org
Sun Sep 22 18:09:35 EDT 2002
Lew Osborne said:
> The Verse in question is . John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they
> might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
> His handling of it was to remove the sections between the commas and read
> the verse then to replace the section removed and remove the next section.
> We would then have . "And this is life eternal whom thou hast sent."
Lew, I don't think this is a possible translation of the Greek here since
the relative pronoun hOS ("who") is masculine singular accusative and
appears in close proximity to it most likely antecedent IHSOUN CRISTON,
agreeing with it is gender, case, and number. The Greek for "eternal life"
is AIWNIOS ZWH ("eternal life") which is in the nominative case and feminine
in gender, not a likely antecedent for the relative pronoun hOS since there
is a mismatch of gender and case.
I'm wondering if your friend was working with the English words, instead of
the facts of the Greek, which should always form the foundation for English
suggestions for translation.
I see no evidence that AIWNIOS ZWH ("eternal life") is personified in this
verse.
Wayne
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