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

Glendon Gross gross at clones.net
Wed Nov 23 02:03:52 EST 2005


Webb wrote:

>Dear All,
>This has been a thorough discussion, and I'll just make one parting comment.
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>hO WN KAI hO HN KAI hO ERCOMENOS as a whole formulation is John's rendering
>of the Hebrew tetragrammaton--not just hO WN. So the whole expression is a
>title, God's "name".
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>Peace,
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>Webb Mealy
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Hello Webb,

Maybe I missed something... but is it really true that John is believed 
to have written the Apocalypse in Hebrew or Aramaic originally?
My impression was that some have concluded this on the basis of the 
large number of Hebrew idioms contained in the Greek text of Revelation.
Nevertheless, I am not aware of any Hebrew text that uses the 
Tetragrammaton in place of this verse.  If such a manuscript really does 
exist, please enlighten me as to where I can find it.  I was under the 
impression that such ideas are purely conjecture, and that we have no 
textual evidence of such if it is true.

I am under the impression that one of the exercises Tyndale went through 
in the preparation of his New Testament was the translation of the NT 
into Hebrew.  But of course, Tyndale postdates John the revelator by 
about 1500 years. 

Regards,

Glendon Gross


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