[B-Greek] Pink

John Fincher jcfincher at charter.net
Tue Dec 21 22:25:14 EST 2004


Thanks, Eric

After I posted the question, I was looking around at different online versions, and I ran across the same thing in the modern Greek version.  The question then becomes, what does this say about the rest of Pink's commentary?
 
> From: Eric Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2004/12/21 Tue PM 04:46:05 EST
> To: b-greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Pink
> 
> John Fincher wrote:
>  
> > This is my first post, so please be patient with me.  I have an
> > exposition of John by AW Pink, and I've always wondered about the
> > following reference.  He says that the word for "was" is ITO in 1:1 and
> > 1:2.  Every Greek text I've seen has HN.  Does anyone know what text
> > Pink used, or run across this before?
>  
> I suspect A.W. Pink has mistakenly been reading from a MODERN 
> GREEK New Testament. The Modern Greek version of John 1:1 
> reads:
>  
> EN ARCH HTO O LOGOS, KAI O LOGOS HTO PARA TW QEW, 
> KAI QEOS HTO O LOGOS. OUTOS HTO EN ARCH PARA TW 
> QEW.
>  
> Since Modern Greek pronouns the H (eta) as "ee," this would be 
> pronounced like "eeto" or "ito" in English.
>  
> Of course, you don't want to be reading from a Modern Greek version 
> of the NT, as it would be a translation, and not the Greek text in which 
> the NT was written. John 1:1-2 in the Koine/Hellenistic/1st-Century 
> Greek New Testament reads:
>  
> EN ARCHi HN hO LOGOS, KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON QEON, 
> KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS. hOUTOS HN EN ARCHi PROS TON 
> QEON.
>  
> That is why all your sources correctly say HN, not "ito."
>  
> It took me awhile to find a Modern Greek NT to verify this, but I found 
> one online through The Sword Project:
> http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp
>  
> 
> 
> Eric S. Weiss
> 
> 
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