[B-Greek] John 1:3
Harold R. Holmyard III
hholmyard at ont.com
Fri Aug 26 22:39:41 EDT 2005
Dear Fitzwilliam,
>I am new to the Greek language so if this is
>another flagrantly obvious question, then I
>apologize; but why is there a period after oude
>hen in John 1:3? The full transliteration of
>the verse is: panta di' autou egeneto, kai
>chôris autou egeneto oude hen. ho gegonen
That is a punctuation point added by the editors
of the text you are using. I don't believe It is
ancient. There are other ways of reading the
Greek, and the issue is debated. You could divide
the sentence after those two words as well.
Presumably whoever did the numbering of the
verses took the alternative view (I think it was
a man named Stephanus who lived in the Middle
Ages.)
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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