[B-Greek] First Post

ray drtrail at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 09:51:49 EDT 2006


Hello everybody -

I have just received my email confirmation so if I am asking something
that's been discussed before please excuse me.

I have a little discussion going on about John 10:10b. I understand "that
they may have life" is in the subjunctive mood but since "hina" is there, it
is declaring a cause-result - a purpose - not a possibility as is the usual
case of subjunctive moods.

My question is: Could the second predicate - "they might have abundance" -
which is also subjunctive, suggest  probability since the "hina" is used on
only the first  verb?

In other words - could the second verb be considered a subset of the first
group. That is - is it a possibility - that the ones who have abundance are
part of the ones you have life.

That then would suggest that those having life as a result of His coming -
MAY then have abundance as a possibility since the abundance is dependent on
our doing - obeying after we have eternal life.

First predicate - purposeful; second predicate = possibiility.
I apologize if this is not quite as clear as it could be - but I am in a
hurry to add share with others the info you give me here.

Please somebody tell me this is correct'
Ray



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