[B-Greek] John 4:34

Richard Lindeman oblchurch at msn.com
Fri Dec 22 12:28:30 EST 2006


John 4:34 
LEGEI AUTOIS hO IHSOUS EMON BRWMA ESTIN hINA POIHSW TO QELHMA TOU PEMYANTOS ME KAI TELEIWSW AUTOU TO ERGON 

"Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.'"

I noticed that EMON is found in accusative masculine singular here and serves as the subject of hINA POIHSW and also as the subject of (hINA) TELEIWSW.  In this verse, is this an exact equivalent of an accusative subject for an infinitive? In other words, if John had written aorist infinitives here instead of hINA + aorist subjunctives, would that be good Greek? And would that change the function of EMON in any way or the meaning of the sentence? 

Blessed Christmas to all!

Rich Lindeman


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