[B-Greek] 3 John 5

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Feb 16 12:45:34 EST 2004


At 12:12 PM -0500 2/16/04, Dony K. Donev wrote:
>3 John 5
>I have a question about the relative pronoun in the middle of the verse.
>Does it refer to the verb POIEIS or to the verb ERGASEI
>
>Dony

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Text: AGAPHTE, PISTON POIEIS hO EAN ERGASHi EIS TOUS ADELFOUS KAI TOUTO
XENOUS ...


hO is object of ERGASHi ("whatever you perform ..."); nevertheless,its
implicit antecedent must also be taken with PISTON POEIS: "Whatever task
you perform for fellow-believers, you are doing (that thing) faithfully ..."
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Carl W. Conrad
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