[B-Greek] Rev 9:15 - use of definite article

WFWarren at aol.com WFWarren at aol.com
Sat Jun 12 13:08:28 EDT 2004


In a message dated 6/12/04 10:38:35 AM, gfsomsel at juno.com writes:


> Smyth notes that in Homer the article tends to be used as a
> demonstrative( _Greek Grammar_ , §§1000-1104) in §§1119-1121 he deals
> with the subject of "The Particular Article" in which he states much the
> same thing as Aune in his WBC 52a commentary on Revelation.
> "The definite article is always used with a word group that consists of
> article + substantive. By using the article, the author assumes (rightly
> or wrongly) that the reader knows the persons or things indicated by the
> substantive.
> 
To back up this note, the demonstrative use is what the Net Bible notes for 
this article in Rev. 9:15.   One textual variant also puts an article with 
hHMERAN, but no article is attached to the next two nouns.  

paz,

Bill Warren
Director of the Center for New Testament Textual Studies
Landrum P. Leavell, II, Professor of New Testament and Greek
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary




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