John 20:31 was Re: [B-Greek] Phil 2:11
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Oct 15 08:58:49 EDT 2003
At 5:39 AM -0700 10/15/03, waldo slusher wrote:
>> 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".
>
>It may be worth mentioning that the emphasis in
>constructions as this always falls on the predicate,
>and I think we must go with "Jesus is THE MESSIAH."
I wonder whether the question is really so easily decided; my own
experience is that the predicate word is normally first in this sort of an
equative clause with ESTI(N). Perhaps the question of frontal prominence
may enter in here; I ask the question rather than proffer any answer: (a)
is IHSOUS the predicate because it has frontal prominence and/or because hO
CRISTOS has the article? or (b) is hO CRISTOS the predicate and emphatic,
implying in this instance that emphasis is not frontal at all but rather on
the FINAL word?
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Carl W. Conrad
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