[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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