[B-Greek] Can QEOS be used in apposition to MONOGENHS inJohn 1:18-revised

Leonard Jayawardena leonardj at live.com
Thu Nov 5 01:10:38 EST 2009



> Tom Moore wrote:> "MONOGENHS (pred.) QEOS means God's only begotten?">> MONOGENHS and QEOS are in the same case. Using the same sense and> terminology you used, it would need be, I think, "only begotten is> God"> using the same word order as Greek. For my part, I would prefer the> attributive position becasue of the context.

Except that MONOGENHS does not mean "only-begotten" but rater "one of a kind," "unique."

Carl W. Conrad


LJ: Is not GENHS in MONOGENHS cognate with GENNAW (used in v. 1:13). Why cannot it mean "only-begotton"?


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