[B-Greek] Possible ellipsis in Jn 1:1

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sun Nov 9 21:31:25 EST 2008


Lately this idea came to be. Is it possible to understand Jn 1:1 this way?

EN ARCHi hHN hO LOGOS KAI hO LOGOS hHN PROS TON QEON
KAI hWS hO QEOS (PATHR) hHN QEOS
KAI QEOS hHN hO LOGOS

Here, I have added on the second line what might have been an ellipsis
(on the semantic level).
Did I put Greek correctly? Should I remove KAI at the beginning of
this clause? Something may be better than KAI on the third line?

I wanted to say 'as the God (Father) is God, so is the Logos'  and
here I take the anarthrous QEOS 'God' with adjectival meaning in a
sense of 'God-being'.

Thank you for help.

Oun Kwon.



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