[B-Greek] Luke 13:8 EN EMOI

Marilyn Phemister windmill65 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 10 17:09:48 EST 2010


I'm having a little trouble understanding the use of EN with EMOI in 
Luke 13:8:

Λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν, πᾶς ὃς ἂν ὁμολογήσῃ ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ὁ 
υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὁμολογήσει ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀγγέλων τοῦ θεοῦ
LEGW DE hUMIN, PAS hOS AN hOMOLOGHSHi EN EMOI  EMPROSQEN TWN ANQRWPWN, 
KAI hO hUIOS TOU ANQRWPOU  hOMOLOGHSEI  EN AUTWi EMPROSQEN TWN AGGELWN 
TOU QEOU

It seems to me like it would mean the same thing without EN before EMOI 
or if used with it, the infinitive "to be" would be understood.  Can 
anyone help me understand this better?

Thank you.

Marilyn Phemister




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