[B-Greek] John 1:18
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Nov 7 10:51:56 EST 2009
On Nov 7, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Mark Lightman wrote:
> Carl egrapse (with wry humor:)
>
> <I accept that "only-begotten" is good 17th-
> century English for MONOGENHS>
>
> Roma locuta, causa finata. ;)
Actually I was deadly serious about "only-begotten" as archaic,
"Biblish" English. Ordinary English-speakers today talk of an "only
child," an "only son," or an "only daughter."
> --- On Sat, 11/7/09, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] John 1:18
> To: "Leonard Jayawardena" <leonardj at live.com>
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 2:28 AM
>
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Leonard Jayawardena wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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