[B-Greek] 1st John 2:22

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 1 15:54:51 EST 2005


On Nov 1, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> OK, I'll yield on this but it would appear that the doubling of the  
> negation here is not of the same kind as the doubling in, say, that  
> in John 15:5 CWRIS EMOU OU DUNASQE POIEIN OUDEN ...

I would agree that this is not a "surface structure" syntactical  
double negative since the first negation is tied up with the lexical  
semantics of the verb.  ATR page 1164 "There is one instance of OU in  
indirect discourse where it is pleonastic according to the classic  
idiom ... 1st John 2:22." However BDF #429 finds this idiom classical  
supported by K-G (? some german  work).

"... negatives which appear commonly in subordinate constructions  
following upon a verb of negative meaning ..." (67.12.2 Attic Greek  
Prose Syntax)


Elizabeth Kline







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