[B-Greek] hO QEOS John 11:22 - pragmatic marking?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 28 17:41:49 EDT 2008


I wouldn't read too much into it.  QEOS isn't the only reference which John repeats rather than using a pronoun. He seems to do the same with IHSOUS.
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John 1:42
John 4:1
John 4:50
John 12:1
John 13:23
John 18:15
John 19:9
John 19:38
John 20:14
John 21:4
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 george
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From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
To: greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:29:14 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] hO QEOS John 11:22 - pragmatic marking?

John 11:22 [ALLA] KAI NUN OIDA hOTI hOSA AN AITHSHi TON QEON DWSEI SOI  
hO QEOS.

Why do we see hO QEOS, here rather than a personal pronoun? Does John  
have a problem with pronominal reference to QEOS? I didn't find a lot  
of examples but check the following.

John 4:24 PNEUMA hO QEOS, KAI TOUS PROSKUNOUNTAS AUTON EN PNEUMATI KAI  
ALHQEIAi DEI PROSKUNEIN.

  AUTON coreferential hO QEOS

John 6:29 APEKRIQH h[O] IHSOUS KAI EIPEN AUTOIS: TOUTO ESTIN TO ERGON  
TOU QEOU, hINA PISTEUHTE EIS hON APESTEILEN EKEINOS.

EKEINOS coreferential hO QEOS

John 8:54 APEKRIQH IHSOUS: EAN EGW DOXASW EMAUTON, hH DOXA MOU OUDEN  
ESTIN: ESTIN hO PATHR MOU hO DOXAZWN ME, hON hUMEIS LEGETE hOTI QEOS  
hHMWN ESTIN,

hON coreferential QEOS hHMWN


John 11:22 [ALLA] KAI NUN OIDA hOTI hOSA AN AITHSHi TON QEON DWSEI SOI  
hO QEOS.

Why do we see hO QEOS, here rather than a personal pronoun? Perhaps hO  
QEOS is in focus here, since clause final position is often used for  
focal constituents. The use of the full noun phrase where it isn't  
expected would also indicate some sort of pragmatic marking. I don't  
have the answer to this.


Elizabeth Kline




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