[B-Greek] KOSMOS

Craig J newsgroupstuff at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 21:17:34 EDT 2006


Carlton Winbery wrote:
> John 1:10 seems to me to be three distinct uses of KOSMOS.
> 
> EN TWi KOSMWi HN, KAI hO KOSMOS DI' AUTOU EGENETO, KAI hO KOSMOS 
> AUTON OUK EGNW.
> 
> 1) alludes to him being part of humanity.
> 2) the universe
> 3) humanity apart from God

I don't think such a strong and overly technical distinction is necessary. A
straight forward reading could make them all the same, as in the following
slight paraphrase:

"He was in the world, and that world was made through him, and that world
did not know him"

I guess KOSMOS would then equate to something like 'the mass of humanity'.
I'm not sure why you have 'humanity' for 1 & 3, but need to change it to
'the universe' for 2 in between..?

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Craig Johnson
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