[B-Greek] Col. 1:13a causal pronoun FOLLOW Up2
Dr Dale M Wheeler
dalemw at multnomah.edu
Mon Apr 19 23:47:58 EDT 2004
At 12:39 PM 4/18/2004 -0700, waldo slusher wrote:
>Dr. Wheeler:
>
>Matt 3:1
>EN DE TAIS hHMERAIS EKEINAIS PARAGINETAI IWANNHS hO
>BAPTISTHS KHRUSSWN EN THi ERHMWi THS IOUDAIAS
>
>This may seem like a crazy question, but I wonder if
>you would indulge me. In the above expression, IWANNHS
>hO BAPTISTHS, can we take their relationship as one of
>concessive, and understand it: John, although a
>baptizer, ?
>
>I think my understanding your answer to this question
>may help me to understand where we might, if at all,
>disagree on Semantics.
hO BAPTISTHS is not a relative pronoun clause, but rather is an adjectival
ptc to IWANNHS. I can't see how this fits what we've been discussing.
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