[B-Greek] Question about Matthew 11:14
Octavio Rodriguez
octaviors at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 13:10:05 EST 2005
Dear Sir:
My interest is about this sentence : Matthew 11:14 : hAUTOS ESTIN HLIAS.
Elias is a definite noun. This is the proper name of an ancient famous
prophet. However, regarding the semantic of this passage,
i think that this proper name in this sentence can be a prototype. The real
meaning of this is "John is what Elias was".
Therefore, we can translate it as "This(John) is similar to Elias".
I don´t know if in any other place this clause (A ESTIN B ) could be
regarded in the same sense like Matthew 11:14.
In other words : Which are the examples in which "A estin B" or "A B
estin" is equivalent to "what A is/was, B is/was " ?.
Best Regards
Octavio Rodriguez
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