[B-Greek] Gospel of John question again Chapt. 1
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 26 10:37:29 EDT 2003
At 7:16 AM -0700 9/26/03, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>vs1
>EN ARCHi HN hO LOGOS, KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON QEON,
>KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS.
>
>vs2
>hOUTOS HN EN ARCHi PROS TON QEON.
>
>Does verse 2 give any additional information that is
>not already stated in verse 1? The only thing I can
>see is the use of hOUTOS, but is that not just
>refering to hO LOGOS?
Yes it is; I don't think it really offers information beyond what's already
in 1:1b, but it may serve the rhetorical purpose of restating in summary
form the content of verse 1; when one considers the fact that designation
of verse-numbers is a relatively late development, one might even prefer to
think of what we call verse 2 as the final clause of the sentence
constituting what we call verse 1. But there's not likely to be any
consensus on that matter.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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