[B-Greek] Titus 2:13 / Revelation 12:14
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Mon Aug 14 22:32:14 EDT 2006
At 06:50 PM 8/14/2006 -0700, Jason Kerrigan wrote:
>Revelation 12:14: TOU AETOU TOU MEGALOU, reads, "great eagle." Likewise I have bellieved that: THS DOXH TOU MEGALOU in Titus 2:13 would read, "Great Glory." Can anyone shed some light on why MEGALOU would be descriptive of the antecedent noun in Revelation 12:14 but not in Titus 2:13? I am open to correction.
For Tit 2:13 to mean "Great Glory," it would have to be
THS DOXH THS MEGALHS instead so that the adjective agrees
in gender with the noun it modifies. However, the gender
of MEGALOU is masculine (or neuter) and does not agree
with the gender of DOXH, which is feminine. As a result,
it must refer to something else, i.e., the following
remainder of the noun phrase: QEOU KAI SWTHROS hHMWN
IHSOU CRISTOU.
In Rev 12:14, on the other hand, MEGALOU does agree with
AETOU, and there is no remainder of a noun phrase headed
by TOU following MEGALOU.
Stephen Carlson
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