[B-Greek] Syntax of Rev 21:3e

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Mar 14 18:05:15 EDT 2011


On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Stephen Carlson wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Eric Inman <eric-inman at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔσται [αὐτῶν θεός],
>>> 
>>> KAI AUTOS hO QEOS MET' AUTWN ESTAI [AUTWN QEOS].
>> 
>> What about this possibility: "And He, the God [who is] with them, will be their God."?
> 
> I considered that, but I wondered whether this possibility would have
> better been expressed with an article before the preposition, as if,
> hO QEOS hO MET' AUTWN.
> 
> Perhaps an article guru can comment as to this.

I don't claim to be that, nor even articulate about articuli (in the
vein of "funiculi funicula") but that question is complicated by
the fact that hO QEOS seems to be used in Biblical Greek 
phrase-wise as a proper name.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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