[B-Greek] PROTOTOKOS (was John 1:18)

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 24 22:51:28 EDT 2006


Perhaps you failed to notice that the thread on Jn 1.18 has been closed.  I have therefore changed the header and am dealing only with the question of PROTOTOKOS (and to some extent other combinations with PROTO-).
   
  PROTOTOKOS does not necessarily mean "first-born."  Some of these combinations with PROTO- have the sense of "foremost."  In LSJ under PROTOGONOS Sophocles' _Philoctetes_ 180 is cited for the sense "high-born houses" (or it could be "foremost families").
   
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Jason Hare <jaihare at gmail.com> wrote:
  This very well and good, I do not think that MONOGENHS necessarily
carries the idea of "begotten," does it? From what I have heard (and I
remember seeing this on this list some time ago), MONOGENHS does not
bear this meaning but simply means "unique" or "one-of-a-kind."
PROTOTOKOS (from your citations) is clearly a different case, but how
does that apply to John 1:18?

Jason


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