[B-Greek] Vocative of QEOS
Oun Kwon
kwono at upstate.edu
Sun Jul 4 20:54:43 EDT 2004
That has been exactly the way I have put down to render the text (including
exclamatory mark) to show they (Lord and God) are not vocative, after I read
a length web page listing examples of all the vocative KYRIE and this
occurrence in Jn 20:28 is not vocative in the context of JW argument
concerning Christologic understanding.
As now, my typographic scheme used in translation is using ! for vocative as
well as for exclamatory. I liket to use a distinct one useful for
vocatives. Something similar to an inverted ! in Spanish attracted me at
first, however, the font of this actual letter is not quite to my taste
since it has a descender, not exactly being a simple inversion of ! so I
have to wait until I find a suitable font which may well be hidden in the
vast world of Unicode world.
By the way, as to vocative and exclamative (if I may come up with a new
word) -- can
both be treated same at all grammatically? (I mean, in terms of word forms).
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>From Steven Lo Vullo
> This doesn't seem to me to be a vocative at all, but rather a nominative
in an elliptical exclamation:
hO KURIOS MOU KAI hO QEOS MOU [EI~]!
[You are] my Lord and my God!
As Wallace notes, all instances of a supposed vocative in exclamation are
disputed (GGBB, p. 70).
Oun J Kwon, M.D.
SUNY Uptate Med University
Syracuse, NY
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