[B-Greek] John3 3,7 revisited ?born again?

Emil Salim neokantian at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 02:05:38 EDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:37 PM, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> That Jesus is speaking of being born "from above" is evident from the fact that he says
>
> ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἐξ ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος, οὐ δύναται εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ.
> EAN MH TIS GENNHQHi EC hUDATOS KAI PNEUMATOS, OU DUNATAI EISELQEIN EIS THN BASILEIAN TOU QEOU

I'm curious to know what is it about EC hUDATOS KAI PNEUMATOS which
suggests that ANWQHN means "from above." Also, what kind of genitive
do we have here? Locative? Causative?

Emil Salim


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