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

D Jongkind dj214 at cam.ac.uk
Thu May 6 10:05:25 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.

Should read my own notes better the following times. Of course it is a
reference to the word he (Jesus) spoke.

Apologies to the list.
Dirk




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