[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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