[B-Greek] Vocative hO QEOS

Tony Costa tmcos at rogers.com
Fri Aug 20 19:13:49 EDT 2004


Philip, I found the book by Murray J. Harris. "Jesus as God: The New
Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus." (Grand Rapids, Michigan:
Baker Book House, 1992) very helpful. Harris deals with this question that
you have raised and gives it a good treatment.

Tony Costa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Silouan Thompson" <himself at philthompson.net>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Vocative hO QEOS


> While the subject of that hO QEOS MOU passage is raised, I'm curious about
> why the Psalmist often addresses God as hO QEOS rather than as QEE - e.g.
in
> Psalm 50, ELEHSON ME hO QEOS KATA TO MEGA ELEOS SOU... I'm not so familiar
> with the LXX/OG Old Testament text outside the Psalms; Does QEE occur more
> often in other parts of the LXX/OG?
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> It occurs to me that I know of just one Byzantine hymn that addresses God
as
> QEE (i.e. the last hymn in the Paraclisis service which we're singing this
> week.) There are probably more, but in liturgical Greek God is still
usually
> addresed as hO QEOS. Even when QEOS accompanies another noun which *is*
> vocative it sometimes stays nominative - e.g. XRISTE hO QEOS (O Christ
God).
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> Are there other names or titles in Greek that are treated the same way? Or
> is the nominative-as-vocative uniquely used in addressing God? (Maybe
> something like the way some folks call everybody "you" except God who is
> "Thou".)
>
> I expect this has already been discused here in detail; maybe someone can
> point me to the right section of the archives and I can read what's
already
> been said.
>
> Silouan Thompson
> Walla Walla, Washington USA
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