[B-Greek] οὔτις ἔσθ' ὃς οὔ S.Ajax 725 & Jn 1:3
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri May 7 14:22:47 EDT 2010
οὔτις ἔσθ' ὃς οὔ OUTIS ESQ' hOS OU S.Ajax 725 sounded somewhat familiar.
Sophocles Ajax 723-728
Στείχοντα γὰρ πρόσωθεν αὐτὸν ἐν κύκλῳ
μαθόντες ἀμφέστησαν, εἶτ' ὀνείδεσιν
ἤρασσον ἔνθεν κἄνθεν οὔτις ἔσθ' ὃς οὔ,
τὸν τοῦ μανέντος κἀπιβουλευτοῦ στρατοῦ
ξύναιμον ἀποκαλοῦντες, ὡς οὐκ ἀρκέσοι
τὸ μὴ οὐ πέτροισι πᾶς καταξανθεὶς θανεῖν.
STEICONTA GAR PROSWQEN AUTON EN KUKLWi
MAQONTES AMFESTHSAN, EIT' ONEIDESIN
HRASSON ENQEN KA)NQEN OUTIS ESQ' hOS OU,
TON TOU MANENTOS KA)PIBOULEUTOU STRATOU
XUNAIMON APOKALOUNTES, hWS OUK ARKESOI
TO MH OU PETROISI PAS KATAXANQEIS QANEIN.
John 1:3
πάντα δι᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο,
καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν ὃ γέγονεν.
PANTA DI᾿ AUTOU EGENETO,
KAI CWRIS AUTOU EGENETO OUDE hEN hO GEGONEN.
[the punctuation favored by Bruce Metzger (1975)]
The notion that there is something strange and unacceptable about the syntax of χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν ὃ γέγονεν CWRIS AUTOU EGENETO OUDE hEN hO GEGONEN seems to fall away in light of οὔτις ἔσθ' ὃς οὔ OUTIS ESQ' hOS OU in Ajax 725.
I suspect that the negative affirmation is somewhat more emphatic than the positive.
Elizabeth Kline
Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 372-373
{ΤΕ.} Σὺ δ' ἄθλιός γε ταῦτ' ὀνειδίζων ἃ σοὶ
οὐδεὶς ὃς οὐχὶ τῶνδ' ὀνειδιεῖ τάχα.
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