John 20:31 was Re: [B-Greek] Phil 2:11
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 14 14:46:12 EDT 2003
Doug Hoxworth <dhoxworth at charter.net> wrote:
>><Stephen>
>>...that pointed out that since CRISTOS has the
>article (both are definite), it should be the subject,
>i.e.: "that the Messiah is Jesus."
>
><doug>
>but not if one wanted to say the equivalent in English,
">Jesus is THE Messiah." would hOTI IHSOUS ESTIN CRISTOS
>communicate this?
It depends on what your mean by the stressed THE. I supose
hOTI hO IHSOUS ESTIN hO CRISTOS would work, but if you
meant to also indicate the uniqueness of the Messiah, then it
may be more clearly rendered with MONOS or MONOGENOS,
etc.
>plus i don't think the presence of the article always
>means that the nominal is the subject of the sentence.
>there are many other factors involved (e.g., fronting)
>other than just articles.
Of course, but fronting achieves its effect when the
subject and predicate were already unambiguous. The
issue here is identifying the subject and predicate.
Stephen Carlson
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