[B-Greek] John 6:27

bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Tue Mar 4 19:19:13 EST 2003


> 
> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
> Date: 2003/03/03 Mon PM 07:26:07 GMT-05:00
> To: <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca>
> CC: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] John 6:27
> 
> At 6:36 PM -0500 3/3/03, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Hi, B-Greekers;
> >The last clause of John 6:27 reads; TOUTON GAR hO PATHR ESFRAGISEN hO
> >QEOS. It is quite clear that hO PATHR and hO QEOS belong together. What is
> >the reason that ESFRAGISEN is inserted here,(or hO PATHR pushed forward,
> >or hO QEOS pushed back, whatever the case may be). Thank you.
> 
> A response to this really requires, I think, that we envision the whole
> passage and grasp that the antecedent of TOUTON is hO hUIOS TOU ANQRWPOU:
> ERGAZESQE MH THN BRWSIN THN APOLLUMENHN ALLA THN BRWSIN THN MENOUSAN EIS
> ZWHN AIWNION, hHN hO hUIOS TOU ANQRWPOU hUMIN DWSEI; TOUTON GAR hO PATHR
> ESFRAGISEN hO QEOS.
> 
> Here TOUTON is "the Son of Man" and it is Jesus, speaking directly of
> himself and his own authoritative status. My own idiomatic version in
> English of this would be: "For HE is the one whom the Father has set his
> seal upon, that is to say, GOD has done it." I persist in this as yet
> unshaken notion, Iver to the contrary notwithstanding, that there is
> emphasis in the final position. One might argue that hO QEOS is appositive
> to hO PATHR, but in my opinion a noun or adjective indicated as attributive
> by the article serves very much the same function as an appositive, as TOUS
> ANDRAS TOUS MEGALOUS: "the men, the big ones."

Thanks Carl.
Is there a stronger emphasis on hO QEOS in -hO PATHR ESFRAGISEN hO QEOS- then if it had said -hO PATHR hO QEOS ESFRAGISEN?
Bert de Haan.
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> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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