[B-Greek] John 1.3,4 HN
Raymond Regalado
fwgk5942 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Fri Nov 19 09:52:41 EST 2004
On 2004.11.19, at 11:48 PM, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
> 1.3
> PANTA DI' AUTOU EGENETO, KAI CWRIS AUTOU EGENETO OUDE
> hEN, hO GEGONEN
> 1.4
> EN AUTWi ZWH HN, KAI hH ZWH HN TO FWS TWN ANQRWPWN
>
> I think one translator (Brown or Bultmann, I don't
> remember) takes HN (4a) as "found." And so translates
> the last part of 3 and first part of 4 together
> something like: "that which came to be found life in
> him..."
>
> Which I take to mean, 'everything that came to be (or
> was created) found its source of life in him.'
>
> Anyone have a problem with this understanding?
But isn't HN just the imperfect third person singular of EIMI? So
"was" seems to me the proper translation...
Raymond Regalado
Tokyo, Japan
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