[B-Greek] Phil 2:11

Dmitriy Reznik reznik1 at juno.com
Tue Oct 14 13:47:10 EDT 2003


Ranulf,

> > Still we find in John 20:31 "hOTI IHSOUS ESTIN hO CRISTOS".

> This is a rather different example, because we have a definite 
> predicating
> verb and have no option but to render it as "...that Jesus is the
> Christ/Messiah".

I understand that the example is different, but it shows that messiahship
of Jesus was an important message of the early Christians.

> With no article, as you say you can't say for definite which of 
> KURIOS
> or CRISTOS is acting as a predicate, however, the term KURIOS 
> IHSOUS
> doesn't appear as a name anywhere, whereas IHSOUS CRISTOS appears 
> many,
> many times. 

I am not saying that KURIOS IHSOUS is used as a name. But can't it be
used as a name (Jesus) and a title (Lord)? KURIOS is a common title for
Jesus in the NT. 

Thanks.

Dmitriy Reznik

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