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by Stephen_Banes
February 24th, 2014, 10:38 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3
Replies: 40
Views: 23283

Re: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3

Finally: Rev. 22:3 tells us: ' καὶ πᾶν κατάθεμα οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι καὶ ὁ θρόνος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀρνίου ἐν αὐτῇ ἔσται καὶ οἱ δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ λατρεύσουσιν αὐτῷ" That is, λατρεύσουσιν is given by DOULOI, that is δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ λατρεύσουσιν αὐτῷ, and the recipient of such, is to one (AUTW) of those on the ...
by Stephen_Banes
February 24th, 2014, 9:50 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3
Replies: 40
Views: 23283

Re: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3

You write: "that τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀρνίου functions as a grammatical unit and that as such neither of the substantives can be broken out of the unit so as to be considered the antecedent of αὐτῷ" So I ask, in light of Rev. 3:21 that tells us: ὁ νικῶν δώσω αὐτῷ καθίσαι μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἐν τῷ θρόνῳ...
by Stephen_Banes
February 21st, 2014, 10:05 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3
Replies: 40
Views: 23283

Re: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3

Revelation 7:15 says: "διὰ τοῦτὸ εἰσιν ἐνώπιον τοῦ θρόνου τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ λατρεύουσιν αὐτῷ..." Stephen C. does Barry's statement to the effect that the nearest noun in the sentence should be considered the antecedent unless there are overriding circumstances work at Rev. 7:15 so that θεοῦ s...
by Stephen_Banes
February 20th, 2014, 5:52 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3
Replies: 40
Views: 23283

Re: Object of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3

καὶ οἱ δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ λατρεύσουσιν αὐτῷ, kaì hoi doûloi autoû latreúsousin autō That is an interesting question. Basically what you are asking is whether knowing Greek can help you understand more clearly what the "his" and "him" refer to in the English. Greek has a way of avoidin...
by Stephen_Banes
February 16th, 2014, 4:47 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3
Replies: 40
Views: 23283

Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3

From what I can gather from this specific text, as Pronouns and their Nouns must match case, the recipient of LATREUO must match the case of AUTOU, which is Genitive Masculine Singular. According to the verse there are two possible recipients, THEOU or ARNIOU. THEOU is Genitive Masculine Singular an...

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