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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 9 21:46:16 EST 2008


Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. 
EN ARXHi HN hO LOGOS, KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON QEON, KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS

If I were to posit any ellipsis, it would be more like

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν πατέρα, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. 
EN ARXHi HN hO LOGOS, KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON QEON PATERA, KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS.
 
I don't, however, think that too likely.
 george
gfsomsel 


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From: Oun Kwon <kwonbbl at gmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2008 9:31:25 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Possible ellipsis in Jn 1:1

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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