[B-Greek] John 3:16 "so"

Harold Holmyard hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 15 22:06:08 EST 2009


Steve,
>
> I think the most likely reading is to see hOUTWS referring back to vv.
> 14-15.
>
> "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, in this/the same
> way must the Son of Man be lifted up. For in this way God loved the
> world, so that He gave his one and only Son..."
>
> Understood in this way, the hOUTWS is reiterating the content of vv.
> 14-15 that stresses Jesus being lifted up by comparison to the serpent
> in the wilderness, which is reiterated by hOUTWS. Note that the
> translation looks really similar, the primary difference has to do with
> the reference of hOUTWS, whether forward or backward. 
>
> I gotta run my daughter to youth group, hope this will answer the
> question.
>   

HH: Thanks. Yes, this is the way that the article I read goes about 
interpreting the verse. It was written by Robert Gundry and someone else 
and published in /Novum Testamentum/ in the 1999 volume, I think in the 
first issue of the year. But, Steve, you have not yet handled the hWSTE 
clause in translation. How would you handle it?

HH: And of course the issue still remains whether the Loeb Classical 
Library and other sources might be correct in handling hOUTWS . . . 
hWSTE in an intensive way in extra-biblical literature.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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