[B-Greek] PLHRHS

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Fri Apr 30 07:20:53 EDT 2004


Carl said some time ago:
> John 1:14 KAI hO
> LOGOS SARX EGENETO KAI ESKHNWSEN EN hHMIN, KAI EQEASAMEQA THN DOXAN AUTOU,
> DOXAN hWS MONOGENOUS PARA PATROS, PLHRHS CARITOS KAI ALHQEIAS. If that
> nominative adjective PLHRHS is rightly transmitted in the manuscripts, it
> can only agree with hO LOGOS, the original subject of the verse and mean
> "dwelt among as one full of grace and truth." But it's not usually
> translated to make any such meaning clear and I have the impression (I've
> never seen it commented on) that it is understood as parallel to the
> genitives AUTOU ... MONOGENOUS, i.e. as if it were a genitive PLHROUS--and
> it's viewed as a grammatical anacoluthon. It's really a very strange
> grammatical collocation.

It appears that the masculine and feminine forms are the same for this
adjective, and we seem to have an accusative PLHRHS in
Acts 6:5 KAI EXELEXANTO STEFANON, ANDRA PLHRHS PISTEWS...

The accusative in 2 John 1:8 is PLHRH, but in Mark 4:28 both PLHRH and
PLHRHS are well attested. Is this an example of the language in flux or
PLHRHS just a special case? BAGD says that "In some of the passages already
mentioned PLHRHS is indecl."

Could PLHRHS in John 1:14 possibly be an accusative (feminine), and
therefore relate to DOXAN?

Iver Larsen




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