[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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