[B-Greek] John 15, true vine

kgraham0938 at comcast.net kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Wed Jan 5 11:22:18 EST 2005


Dear George,

You wrote:

 
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.


Response:  Thanks for the response, my question however, is do you think that this is possible?  Do prep phrases have to follow immediately after the words they modify in Greek?

If this translation is acceptable, this would clear up a lot of baggage that surrounds this passage concerning eternal security.  
 


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Kelton Graham
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