TE in John
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Sat Jan 11 13:53:36 EST 2003
At 17:36 11/01/2003, "Iver Larsen" <iver_larsen at sil.org> wrote:
>And what might "strong connective" possibly mean?
Perhaps expressing, in two words, what BDF 443.1 takes five to convey: >>
rather close connection and relationship <<
( referring to >> the connection of clauses << )
>The second and third TE (4:48 and 6:18) are both discourse connectors which
>function to make a close link to the event(s) in the previous sentence.
Sentence?
The punctuation of N/A 27 indicates two clauses, broken by the
versification, with the crit. app. for the first clause showing several
variants, a fact possibly connected with two observations about TE
1. BDF remarks of TE in Jn. >> only 2:15; 4:32; 6:18; and always textually
contestable. It is not surprising that TE was often confused with DE in the
course of transmission; <<
2. Moulton [ A Grammar of N.T Greek vol. 3 p.338 ] >> It is not surprising
that in textual transmission scribes and editors were unable to resist
introducing TE, sometimes at the expense of DE <<
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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