[B-Greek] 1 John 3.18

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Apr 13 05:53:31 EDT 2007


On Thursday, April 12, 2007, at 10:14PM, "Bryan Cox" <bccox99 at tx.rr.com> wrote:

>>>2. Why does GLWSSHi have the article?
>>
>> Possibly to suggest "your"?
>
>I couldn't mean "your", could it, considering the verb AGAPWMEN, which is a 
>subjunctive 1st person plural?
>
>Could the article imply "with the tongue" rather than "in {a} tongue 
>{language}"?
>
>...Children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in {with} 
>actions and truth...

Yes, but my point was to suggest -- and only to suggest -- that the possessive
sense might be a possibility -- and the original suggested version was given
in the second-person: "do not love ... "

Carl W. Conrad



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