[B-Greek] Rev 1 1 => Main Clause
Peter Streitenberger
ps2866 at bingo-ev.de
Sun Oct 31 07:37:54 EST 2004
Dear Harold and George,
thank you for answering !
To be more specific:
I'd consider:
1) as main clause:
KAI ESHMANEN TW DOULW AUTOU IOANNH hOSA EIDEN
(Jesus indicated his servant John the things he saw. 'He' is refering to John and not to Jesus, who is the seer in the revelation:1,11ff. His name is introduced in between: V.1.hOSA EIDEN refers to the receiving of the revelation by seeing)
2) as Adverbial Clause (specifiying the way the revelation came to John):
APOSTEILAS DIA AGGELOU AUTOU
3) as appositiv clause to identify John more specific (refering to two past - Aorist- events leading to his exile - exactly as in Rev 1 9):
hOS EMARTURHSEN TON LOGON TOU QEOU KAI MARTURIAN IHSOU XRISTOU
I can't see any refering point in the appositive clause (hOS EMARTURHSEN TON LOGON TOU QEOU KAI THN MARTURIAN IHSOU XRISTOU) to hOSA EIDEN, so I consider the appositiv clause to be ended with XRISTOU. The hOSA EIDEN belongs then as an object to the main clause. John did not yet EMARTURHSEN (Aorist) hOSA EIDEN in the past, because the complete revelation still is a future thing for John in the introduction Verses.
Best regards
Peter - Bavaria/Germany
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