[B-Greek] John 15, true vine
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Jan 5 03:42:24 EST 2005
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 03:48:10 +0000 kgraham0938 at comcast.net writes:
> Every transation, translates John 15:2 as " every branch in me not
> producing fruit he cast out..."
>
> An interesting thought came up in one of my classes, why does'nt
> anyone ever translate the verse as.
>
> Every branch not producing fruit in me he cast out? Does EN EMOI
> have to modify PAN KLAMA?
>
> Just a thought.
>
>
> Kelton
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TEXT:
PAN KLHMA EN EMOI MH FERON KARPON hAIREI AUTO
If we were to follow your thought, would we not expect rather
REVISED TEXT:
PAN KLHMA MH FERON KARPON EN EMOI hAIREI AUTO ?
While word order is considerably more flexible in Greek than in English
due to its inflected nature, the order does have significance.
george
gfsomsel
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