[B-Greek] him which is, and which was, and which is to come

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Mon Nov 21 12:40:40 EST 2005


>Well, I, for one, am going to translate it as "from the is, the was, and the
>coming one", and I won't be doing it because I don't know English.

HH: As far as I know there is no reason to translate the first term 
as "the is," since it can be translated "the One who is." This seems 
like needless solecism. It is the second term that is a solecism, but 
the Greek is evidently to be understood as "the One who was," in 
parallel to the first term.

					Yours,
					Harold Holmyard




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