[B-Greek] Preposition example needed

bgreek at ntresources.com bgreek at ntresources.com
Mon Sep 22 16:22:29 EDT 2003


No, 1 John 4:7 won't work because there the prep. phrase is a predicate
complement and doesn't modify AGAPH directly. (That's the closest I found
using such words, but the syntax doesn't match.)

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Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Assoc. Professor/NT
Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA, USA
URL: www.NTResources.com  
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Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Setterholm 
> [mailto:vincent.at.logos.com at bgreek.at.ntresources.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:15 PM
> To: bgreek at ntresources.com; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Preposition example needed
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> Will 1 John 4:7 serve your purpose?  Found that using a 
> graphical query in Logos.
> 
> Vincent Setterholm
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bgreek at ntresources.com [mailto:bgreek at ntresources.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] Preposition example needed
> 
> 
> I've been poking around unsuccessfully with Accordance this 
> afternoon looking for a *simple* example to use for class. In 
> particular, I'd like to be able to illustrate the added 
> specificity that a preposition can make that is ambiguous 
> with case alone. To do so, I've been trying to find an 
> example of the same basic phrase written both with and 
> without the preposition, e.g., "the love of God" written both 
> as "hH AGAPH TOU QEOU" *and* as "hH AGAPH EK TOU QEOU" (or 
> something similar). I'm not concerned with what the head word 
> or modifier word is, just that it is a relatively simple 
> example and that there is a parallel example--preferably both 
> from the NT, though LXX is OK (& perhaps even Ap. Fathers). 
> There is a similar example in Smyth, sect. 1637, but is, of 
> course, from classical lit. Any suggestions?
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> Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Assoc. Professor/NT
> Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA, USA
> URL: www.NTResources.com  
> PURL: purl.oclc.org/NT_Resources/
> Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
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