[B-Greek] Why Monotonic Greek. Was: Free Polytonic Uncial Greek Unicode Font?
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 10 07:43:44 EDT 2006
Curtis Hinson wrote:
> As to John 1.17, the text. 1:17 οτι ο νομος δια μωυσεως εδοθη η χαρις και η
> αληθεια δια ιησου χριστου εγενετο OTI O NOMOS DIA MOUSEWS EDOQH
> H CARIS KAI H ALHQEIA DIA IHSOU CRISTOU EGENETO.
>
> A quick translation of mine: "Because the Torah through Moses was given,
> grace and truth through Jesus Christ came to be."
>
> It occurs to me just now that the function of DIA is questionable, if anybody
> wants to talk about other ways that could function we should probably branch
> off a new thread on that subject. What's the function of OTI, and what
> connection might be drawn between EDOQH and EGENETO?
>
> "Because the Torah was given for the sake of Moses, grace and truth for the
> sake of Jesus Christ came about."
Since DIA is used with the genitive in both instances, "through," rather than
"because of" or "for the sake of," would be the correct translation of DIA, I would
think.
Eric S. Weiss
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