[B-Greek] hO KURIOS TO PNEUMA - subject or predicate?

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 17:09:31 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Below is a list of those verses I found that had a similar construction using ESTIN.
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> hO LUCNOS TOU SWMATOS ESTIN hO OFQALMOS. EAN OUN Hi hO OFQALMOS SOU hAPLOUS, hOLON TO SWMA SOU FWTEINON ESTAI·
> Mt 6:22
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> Subject verb predicate – Most translations
> Predicate verb subject – ESV, NIV

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> Blue Harris
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Hi, Blue. I'm glad I have waited to post on this topic to see the
examples you have pulled out.

In this particular example of Mt 6:22 //Lk 11:34, the sense does not
change whichever is taken as the subject. hO OFQALMOS can come at the
beginning?
Maybe when it is read loud (in Greek or in English), just the tone may
come out different.

My question is with English grammar:  In the sentence 'the light of
the body is the eye', how we decide which is the subject? Is it purely
by the position?  (Besides in poems cannot a phrase go freely
anywhere?).

Oun Kwon



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