[B-Greek] Another example of a qualitative QEOS

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Mon Jul 10 12:09:58 EDT 2006



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> Even if your observation is correct, that has little bearing on John
> 1:1. The force of the article or the lack of one can only be seen in a
> small, closed context, such as 1:1a, b, and c. This is so, because it is
> the syntactic construction of the close context that can teach us the
force.
> 
> In John 1:1b we find hO QEOS with article, and in 1:1c we find QEOS
> without article. It is this relationship that can tell us something, not
> how John and others use the article in other instances. "The
> Translators's New Testament," published by The British and Foreign Bible
> Society in 1973 says: "In the second instance there is no article and it
> is difficult to believe that the omission is not significant."

Will you admit that this significance could be explained in more than one
way?

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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