[B-Greek] John 1:18

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Nov 7 04:28:27 EST 2009


On Nov 7, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Leonard Jayawardena wrote:

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> One final comment on the meaning of MONOGENHS in the first chapter  
> of John: Doesn't TON YION TON MONOGENH in John 3:16 clinch my  
> position that MONOGENHS means "only-begotton."  In view of this  
> verse, would you still hold that MONOGENHS means "one of a kind" or  
> unique?

You evidently missed my message of November 6, 2009 2:30:59 PM EST  
where I conceded that the meaning of MONOGENHS must be "only  
generated." h John 3:16 is different from John 1:18 precisely in that  
the noun construed with MONOGENH is hUION; in 1:18 the noun construed  
with MONOGENHS is QEOS, if that reading as accepted in NA27/UBS4 is  
preferred. At any rate, I accept that "only-begotten" is good 17th- 
century English for MONOGENHS.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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