[B-Greek] John 18:9 Case of relative pronoun

D Jongkind dj214 at cam.ac.uk
Thu May 6 09:58:06 EDT 2004


I am well aware that the case of relative pronouns is often assimilated to
the case of the noun to which it refers, rather than having the case which
it is supposed to have in the relative sentence. But is there an explanation
for the following construction in John 18:9?

INA PLHRWQHi O LOGOS ON EIPEN OTI   ktl

It seems to me that the idea is that it is 'the word that says' and would
assume that 'grammatical Greek' would favour the nominative relative pronoun
(as would the principle of attraction). Unless I am missing something, I
assume this case falls under Koine-laxity.

Regards,
Dirk Jongkind




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