[B-Greek] Jude 4 - A Second Look
rhutchin at aol.com
rhutchin at aol.com
Sun Nov 30 19:43:54 EST 2008
I did not mean to speculate on what the text might have said but sought only to see what the Greek text would have told us in other configurations as a guide to understanding what it does say in the actual text. It seems interesting, to me, to look at what the text does not say. Of course, maybe that works best when trying to figure out politicians.
Roger Hutchinson
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From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: rhutchin at aol.com
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Jude 4 - A Second Look
On Nov 30, 2008, at 10:45 AM, rhutchin at aol.com wrote:
> In Jude 4, we read;
>
> PAREISEDUNSAN GAR TIVES ANQRWPOI…ASEBEIS THN TOU QEOU hHMWN CARITA > METATIQENTES EIS ASELGEIAN KAI TON MONON DESPOTHN KAI KURION hHMWN > IHSOUN CRISTON ARNOUMENOI
>
> Had Jude written:
>
> PAREISEDUNSAN GAR TIVES ANQRWPOI...ASEBEIS THN TOU QEOU hHMWN CARITA > METATIQENTES EIS ASELGEIAN KAI TON MONON DESPOTHN ARNOUMENOI
>
> Or even TON MONON DESPOTHN QEON (as the Byzantine text)
>
> then DESPOTHN would seem to refer to God from the earlier THN TOU > QEOU hHMWN CARITA.
>
> Had Jude written;
>
> PAREISEDUNSAN GAR TIVES ANQRWPOI...ASEBEIS THN TOU QEOU hHMWN CARITA > METATIQENTES EIS ASELGEIAN KAI TON MONON DESPOTHN ARNOUMENOI KAI > KURION hHMWN IHSOUN CRISTON
>
> Then DESPOTHN would also se
em to refer to God from the earlier THN > TOU QEOU hHMWN CARITA. If they deny God, then they deny Christ.
>
> However, Jude writes:
>
> PAREISEDUNSAN GAR TIVES ANQRWPOI...ASEBEIS THN TOU QEOU hHMWN CARITA > METATIQENTES EIS ASELGEIAN KAI TON MONON DESPOTHN KAI KURION hHMWN > IHSOUN CRISTON ARNOUMENOI
Why can't we just stick with what the text says, and avoid speculating about what it MIGHT HAVE SAID?
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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