[B-Greek] 1 John 3:2
Arie Dirkzwager
dirkzwager at pandora.be
Tue Sep 7 18:18:51 EDT 2004
Dony,
EAN must be seen as EI combined with AN.
AN with a conjunctive expresses
- a futuralis (a way to express the future)
- a generalis (a way to express something happening in general).
As ESOMEQA is a future tense, EAN has to be seen as a futuralis.
I think "when" is appropriate, because the is no doubt that the facts
expressed by ESOMEQA are only possible or not real.
Arie
Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
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Van: "Dony K. Donev" <dony at cupandcross.com>
Aan: <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: dinsdag 7 september 2004 23:58
Onderwerp: [B-Greek] 1 John 3:2
I read the 1999 discussion on the EAN clause in 1 John 3:2. The general
conclusion was that EAN means "when" and not "if," as any doubt the author
may have had referred not to the possibility of His return, but to the lack
of knowledge about its time. Point taken, except that Darby's translation
offers a completely different perspective of the text as follows: "Beloved,
now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been
manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we
shall see him as he is." (DBY, 1 John 3:2). Is such rendering appropriate in
this case?
Dony K. Donev
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