[B-Greek] Qualifying the Purpose Clause?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Sep 30 05:50:03 EDT 2004
At 9:05 PM -0400 9/29/04, sheldon bryan wrote:
>I am working through the exercises in Guthrie and Duvall's Biblical Greek
>Exegesis and need clarification on a particular construction found in 1st
>John 2:28.
>
>... hina eav fanerwqh sxwmen...
Rather than pasting in text from a program using a Greek font, it would be
preferable to use the transliteration scheme sketched out in the FAQ at
http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.txt
and succinctly illustrated in a diagram on the list's home page:
http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/
KAI NUN, TEKNIA, MENETE EN AUTWi, hINA EAN FANERWQHi SCWMEN PARRHSIAN KAI
MH AISXUNQWMEN AP' AUTOU EN THi PARRHSIAi AUTOU.
>
>Is eav fanerwqh functioning as a qualifier for the hina purpose clause? If
>so, are there any other examples of this construction (qualifier for a
>purpose clause) in the NT and how should this segment probably be
>translated? Clarifications welcomed!!!
I would understand this in exactly the same way as the text in 1 Cor 16:6
about which Steven LoVullo recently initiated a thread,
hINA hUMEIS ME PROPEMYHTE hOU EAN POREUWMAI
where hOU EAN POREUWMAI is the protasis of a generalizing condition "so
that, wherever I may go you may escort me"--
so in 1 Jn 2:28:
MENETE EN AUTWi, hINA EAN FANERWQHi SCWMEN PARRHSIAN KAI MH AISCUNQWMEN AP'
AUTOU EN THi PARRHSIAi AUTOU.
"(abide in him), so that, whenever he appears, we may have confidence and
may not shrink back in shame fromhim at his coming..
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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