[B-Greek] abide in Jn 15:9-11
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat May 24 21:49:16 EDT 2003
At 8:02 PM -0400 5/24/03, Rbsads at aol.com wrote:
>This is a hard question for me to express, and so patience is requested.
>
>When a word such as MENW is understood as meaning "abide" rather than simply
>as "stay" or "remain," is that word being understood in one of its Koine Greek
>nuances, is it receiving a special nuance by the early Christian writers, or
>is it receiving a special nuance by later Christian hermeneutics influencing
>translation?
>
>This is of course a huge question. I suppose I am asking first for comments
>on the use of MENW in John 15. Second, and perhaps, more importantly are there
>resources for a beginning GNT reader to discern how any particular word has
>changed from standard Koine usage for the purposes of the early Christian
>writers.
In fact MENW is a word of key interest in John's gospel and you would do
well to look carefully at every instance of Johannine usage of the verb (as
also of its nominal cognate MONH ("in my father's house are many MONAI).
The information about early Christian usage is something you should be
looking at BDAG for. But in John's gospel MENW is a word of major
importance; although I no longer have a copy of Raymond Brown's commentary,
my recollection is that there is an account of Johannine usage of MENW in
one of the appendixes where he deals with Johannine verbs.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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