[B-Greek] John 4:34

Elliot Poe Elliot.Poe at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 10:49:01 EST 2006


Richard Lindeman wrote:

>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.
>
I would say EMON is neuter nominative singular going with BRWMA (also 
neuter nominative singular).  hINA indicates purpose.  The future 
participle and sometimes the present participle indicate purpose (Smyth 
2065).

>  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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Elliot Poe



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