[B-Greek] John 1 Questions

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sun Aug 7 04:05:57 EDT 2005


On Aug 6, 2005, at 9:46 PM, J. Kingston Cowart wrote:
> -----------------------------
> At 04:29 AM 8/4/05, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
>> The Greek doesn't have anything that could be rendered "in God"; it
>> has PROS TON QEON, which means something like "in the presence of" or
>> "face to face with."
>>
>
> Dear Prof. Conrad:
>
> This being the case, how are we to best understand the use of EV in
> Acts 17:28, "... *in* him [God] we live, and move, and have our
> being" (KJV, RSV)?

The question raised and my response concerned the text of John 1:1; I  
made no comment with reference to Greek text outside of that context.  
But as a matter of fact, the text you are citing in Acts is an  
inference by Paul in Athens from a  citation from the Greek poet  
Aratus. And in our transliteration scheme is not "EV" but "EN."

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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