[B-Greek] Jn 1:1 - Alternate Reading?
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard at ont.com
Wed Oct 4 17:14:50 EDT 2006
Dear Mike,
> The word "theos" is translated as "godly" in the King James
> Version at least 5 times, (1 Tim 1:4, 2 Cor 1:12, 7:9, 7:11, and
> 11:2). The possible alternate reading would be, "In beginning was
> the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was godly. The
> same was in the beginning with God."
HH: Three examples you give involve "theos" as a
genitive, not a nominative as in John 1:1. The
genitive can be used to make nouns function like
an adjective. Two of your examples (2 Cor 7:9, 11)
involves a prepositional phrase which the
translators of the KJV simplified into an
adjective. In technical terms, the word means
"God" in all these examples.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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