[B-Greek] John 1:18
Thomas Thackery
tthackery at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 00:03:09 EDT 2006
The translation and meaning of John 1:18 become clear when the
statement is accompanied with the rest of the chapter, book, and
ultimately library. This business of gods begetting gods is
commonplace for, say, Hesiod, but I strongly suggest that such a
notion posited to a Jewish audience would hardly (have been) or be
understood with out some major qualification---namely that a sole-
descendant "only-begotten god" ([hO] MONOGENES QEOS) is metaphoric
for the King Messiah. Within the context of the of the Johanine
account, and the rest of the Christian library, the "what" that was
born was clearly a son.
Groetjes,
Thomas Thackery
California, USA
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