[B-Greek] 1 Jn 2:5 hH AGAPH TOU QEOU

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Fri Jun 4 00:26:54 EDT 2004


hOS D'AN THRHi AUTOU TON LOGON, ALHQWS ***EN TOUTWi hH AGAPH TOU QEOU
TETELEIWTAI ***. . .

This is the question of what kind of genitive this may happen to be --
again.  Is it subjective ("God loves . . .") or is it objective ("love
for God").  Here I think many translations have made the wrong choice. 
The versions you mentioned take it to be an objective genitive, but the
question is "how does one choose?"  In this particular instance we may
have some help.  In 1 Jn 4.12 we have a very similar phrase.

QEON OUDEIS PWPOTE TEQEASAI. EAN AGAPWMEN ALLHLOUS, hO QEOS EN hHMIN
MENEI KAI ***hH AGAPH AUTOU EN hHMIN TETELEIWMENH ESTIN***.

Here it can hardly be questioned that it is God's love rather than love
for God which is in view.  I would suggest due to the similarity of the
two passages that the same is true in 1 Jn 2.5 as well.

gfsomsel
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:27:48 +0800 "=?big5?B?d2lsc29uMzI1?="
<wilson325 at sinaman.com> writes:
> 
> According to rsv, niv, etc., hH AGAPH TOU QEOU in 1 Jn 2:5 had been 
> translated into "love for God" instead of "love of God". I would 
> like to ask the reason why, i.e. the principles behind. Also, the 
> flow of judgment, i.e. how we consider "for" instead of "of". Thanks 
> a lot.
> wilson chiu
>
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