[B-Greek] Revelation 13:18

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Tue Jul 6 17:21:22 EDT 2004


It is possible that I missed a message or deleted it too soon. But I did not
find the explanation that ARIQMOS is anarthrous here because normally the
predicate does not have the article.
So we can translate "It is a number" and "It is the number".
The second translation seems the right one, because the word number had been
mentioned before.

ANQRWPOU is anarthrous because we have to translate "of a man" - with or
without a capital that is a matter of interpretation.

Arie


Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> > This  question concerns the explanatory clause ARIQMOS GAR ANQRWPOU
> >
> > ESTIN, in  which both nouns are anarthrous.  John has used the term
> >
> > "number"  three times in this verse and the two others have teh
> > definite
> > article.  How would this best be understood grammatically, and I
> > have
> > read the comments of Wallace in GGBTB.




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