[B-Greek] John 18:37 EK THS ALHQEIAS

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Nov 15 11:30:12 EST 2005


On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:46:48 -0800 Elizabeth Kline
<kline-dekooning at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Webb wrote:
> 
> > I think that John's Gospel and the Johannine Letters use EK in a  
> 
> > distinctive
> > way that most often expresses a sense of trajectory. For example,  
> 
> > Jesus
> > comes from (EK) God ...
> 
> 
> EK/EX like APO can be used to indicate provenance personal and/or  
> familial and John 8:44-47 shows that EK THS ALHQEIAS implies EK TOU  
> 
> QEOU and is the antithesis of EK TOU PATROS TOU DIABOLOU ... who EN  
> 
> THi ALHQEIAi OUK ESTHKEN, hOTI OUK ESTIN ALHQEIA EN AUTWi. hOTAN  
> LALHi TO YEUDOS, EK TWN IDIWN LALEI, hOTI YEUSTHS ESTIN KAI hO PATHR 
>  
> AUTOU.
> 
> Elizabeth Kline
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I believe EK + Gen can also indicate a partitive.  Thus EK THS ALHQEIAS
could indicate that the one(s) referenced are truthful or seek the truth.

george
gfsomsel
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