[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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