[B-Greek] Luke 1:2, John 1:1 LOGOS, word, Word

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 3 15:23:52 EST 2007


EPEIDHPER POLLOI EPEXEIRHSAN ANATACASQAI DIHGHSIN PERI TWN PEPLHRFORHMENWN EN hHMIN PRAGMATWN 2  KAQWS PAREDOSAN hHMIN hOI AP' ARXHS AUTOPTAI KAI hUPHXHQHS LOGWN THN ASFALEIAN.

I can see that taken all by itself the use of LOGOS in Lk 1.2 might cause you to think of Jn 1.2.  There is a principle, however, that you can't take something out of its context.  Even in Lk 1.2 the word PAREDOSAN might give you reason to believe that the author is not thinking of the person who is called hO LOGOS in John but rather of a word, a statement, an account.  When you add to that the statement in Lk 1.1 that many have written a DIHGHSIN, i.e. an account then that rather seals the matter.
 
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Baldwin <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 3:07:05 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Luke 1:2, John 1:1 LOGOS, word, Word


Ladies and Gentlemen:
This may be off-topic so my apologies in advance --
But I was curious to see in Lk1:2 a reference TOU LOGOU and looked it up in 
the NIV and NASB to see it translated "word". In Jn1:1 of course O LOGOS is 
capitalised the "Word" with the obvious connotations.
So I am curious to know whether there is anything in the greek language 
context of Luke that gives us clues as to the Lucan word referring to the 
message ("word") rather than the Word a la John referring to the person?
AP ARXHS AUTOPTAI KAI UPHRETAI GENOMENOI TOU LOGOU sounds to me like the 
LOGOS is a person rather than a word (=message?) or have I missed something?

Any on-topic insights appreciated!

Steve

Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com

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