John 20:31 was Re: [B-Greek] Phil 2:11

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 14 11:08:48 EDT 2003


Dmitriy Reznik <reznik1 at juno.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for your answer. Still we find in John 20:31 "hOTI IHSOUS ESTIN
>> hO CRISTOS".
>> If I am not mistaken, this gospel was written rather late?
>
>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've always thought this too myself, but then I've recently read an
article* that pointed out that since CRISTOS has the article (both
are definite), it should be the subject, i.e.: "that the Messiah is Jesus."

Stephen Carlson

* Can't quite remember the cite off-hand, but I think it is H. M. Jackson,
"Ancient self-referential conventions and their implications for the authorship
and integrity of the gospel of John," Journal of Theological Studies, new
series, 50 (1999): 1-34.



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