[B-Greek] Punctuation of John 9:3-4
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 25 16:04:34 EDT 2009
John 9:2 καὶ ἠρώτησαν αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ
αὐτοῦ λέγοντες· ῥαββί, τίς ἥμαρτεν,
οὗτος ἢ οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ, ἵνα τυφλὸς
γεννηθῇ; 3 ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς· οὔτε
οὗτος ἥμαρτεν οὔτε οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ,
ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα φανερωθῇ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ θεοῦ
ἐν αὐτῷ. 4 ἡμᾶς δεῖ ἐργάζεσθαι τὰ
ἔργα τοῦ πέμψαντός με ἕως ἡμέρα
ἐστίν· ἔρχεται νὺξ ὅτε οὐδεὶς
δύναται ἐργάζεσθαι.
JOHN 9:2 KAI HRWTHSAN AUTON hOI MAQHTAI AUTOU LEGONTES· hRABBI, TIS
hHMARTEN, hOUTOS H hOI GONEIS AUTOU, hINA TUFLOS GENNHQHi; 3 APEKRIQH
IHSOUS· OUTE hOUTOS hHMARTEN OUTE hOI GONEIS AUTOU, ALL᾿ hINA
FANERWQHi TA ERGA TOU QEOU EN AUTWi. 4 hHMAS DEI ERGAZESQAI TA ERGA
TOU PEMYANTOS ME hEWS hHMERA ESTIN· ERCETAI NUX hOTE OUDEIS DUNATAI
ERGAZESQAI.
.
On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Sarah Madden wrote:
.
> I'm surprised no one has commented on the OUTE ... OUTE (neither ...
> nor)
> construction, nor on the dependent INA ("in order that") phrase, nor
> on the
> words EN AUTW ("in him"). For me, these elements indicate that all
> of the
> words from APEKRIQH through AUTW are related to each other and
> complete the
> same thought/sentence.
.
Sarah,
I agree. We see here a well formed structure and semantically cohesive
sentence OUTE ... OUTE ... hINA ... AUTWi. The topic under
discussion is TIS hHMARTEN; or why is this man blind? In verse four
there is a clear break in the thought, the question, why is this man
blind?, is completely dropped. In verse four we see a fronted pronoun
hHMAS the subject of DEI ERGAZESQAI introducing a general statement
that has little or nothing to do with the question of the disciples
TIS hHMARTEN;.
Elizabeth Kline
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