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

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 18:45:01 EST 2010


On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Harold Holmyard
<hholmyard3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> But I think the second
> half of Matt 6:22 may offer a more relevant parallel to 2 Cor 3:17a:
>
> hO DE KURIOS TO PNEUMA ESTIN
>
>
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>
> "All your body is lit-up." The word FWTEINON ("lit-up") is after the
> subject but before the copula verb, functioning as a descriptor of the
> subject. The same word order is present in 2 Cor 3:17a, with TO PNEUMA
> standing in the position corrresponding to FWTEINON in Matt 6:22. So TO
> PNEUMA can similarly be functioning as a descriptor for the subject hO
> KURIOS.
>
> Harold Holmyard
>

Thanks, Harold.

Can you all help me with the sentence which has been vexing me. It's v. 4b of

1Jn 3:4
(PAS hO POIWN THN hAMARTIAN KAI THN ANOMIAN POIEI,)
KAI hH hAMARTIA ESTIN hH ANOMIA

I can read what it says and vaguely fee it,
but I simply cannot get exactly what John is telling us.
What is relation of hAMARTIA and hH ANOMIA?
What does 'ESTIN' mean? Certainly it is not giving a definition of
hAMARTIA, I believe.

Oun Kwon.



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