[B-Greek] Jn 1:1 - Alternate Reading?

Awohili at aol.com Awohili at aol.com
Thu Oct 5 14:44:04 EDT 2006


 
Yet, that same Daniel B. Wallace, in that same GGBB, page 269, says:
 
"The most likely candidate for QEOS is qualitative.  This is true both  
grammatically (for the largest proportion of pre-verbal anarthrous predicate  
nominatives fall into this category) and theologically (both the theology of the  
Fourth Gospel and of the NT as a whole)."
 
So, which Dan Wallace do we listen to?
 
And by the way, since you questioned Dr. Felix Just's bona fides on this  
matter, surely you must know that Granville Sharp was "untrained  theologically"? 
 (GGBE, page 270)  
 
Solomon Landers
 
In a message dated 10/05/2006 11:29:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
gfsomsel at yahoo.com writes:

Granville Sharp's rule has not been overturned.  LOGOS is  definite and QEOS 
is likewise.
 
When the  copulative êáé connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns 
(either  substantive or adjective, or participles) of personal description, 
respecting  office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or 
 qualities, good or ill], if the article hO, or  any of its cases, precedes 
the first of the said nouns or participles, and is  not repeated before the 
second noun or participle, the latter always relates  to the same person that is 
expressed or described by the first noun or  participle: i.e. it denotes a 
farther description  of the first-named person … . 
(http://us.f385.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?action=welcome&YY=581576632&.rand=05o65shqnseob#_ftn1)   
 
 
 
(http://us.f385.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?action=welcome&YY=581576632&.rand=05o65shqnseob#_ftnref1) 
Daniel B. Wallace. (1999; 2002). Greek  Grammar Beyond the Basics - 
Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (271).  Zondervan Publishing House and Galaxie  
Software.











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