Re: 1 co 1.3

From: lakr (lakr@netcom.com)
Date: Sat Aug 16 1997 - 10:33:34 EDT


>
> At 04:50 PM 8/15/97 -0700, lakr wrote:
>
> >How unusual is APO not followed by the genitive, as in Rev 1:4, 'APO hO WN' ?
> >I have not found any similarly constructed expressions in either the
> >LXX or the Greek NT, but my search was not exhaustive.
>
> Rather unusual. In fact, unique. But titles and names can sometimes take the
> nominative - e.g. John 13:13 FWNEITE ME hO DIDASKALOS KAI hO KURIOS, and hO
> WN in this instance, which probably comes from Exodus 3:13 EGW EIMI hO WN,
> may well be part of a fixed construction which is very well known and would
> not normally be declined - as BDR points out, "not even after APO".
>
> For geeks: I found APO followed by an article, a noun, or a pronoun. Only
> one of these was followed by a non-genitive. Here's the breakdown according
> to my Gramcord program:
>
> APO followed by an article:
>
> genitive: 261
> not genitive: 1 - Revelations 1:4
>
> APO followed by a noun:
>
> genitive: 176
> not genitive: 0
>
> APO followed by a pronoun:
>
> genitive: 134
> not genitive: 0
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jonathan

Jonathan, thanks !
I'm just grepping the online GNT's available these days. I noticed that
in my copy of the TR, a 'TOU' is put after the 'APO'. If I remember
correctly, Erasmus translated his latin to Greek for Ap, though.

Larry Kruper



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