[B-Greek] 1 John 3.18

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Apr 12 21:58:17 EDT 2007




 
On Thursday, April 12, 2007, at 09:24PM, "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote:

>TEKNIA, MH AGAPWMEN LOGWi MHDE THi GLWSSHi ALLA EN
>ERGWi KAI ALHQEIAi
>
>1. What is the difference between LOGWi and GLWSSHi? 

Not much: LOGWi may refer to content of what one says,
GLWSSHi to utterance, but I think what we have is essential
a positive and negative set of synonyms here.

>2. Why does GLWSSHi have the article?

Possibly to suggest "your"?

>
>3. Does this mean something like "do not love in word
>(only) or in tongue (only), but (also) in deed and
>truth"? If so, is this a rhetorical way of saying something?

Yes. You might compare Rom 12:9 -- hH AGAPH ANUPOKRITOS
"Love should not be a matter of play-acting."


Carl W. Conrad



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