[B-Greek] MONOU QEOU in John 5:44
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 23:45:52 EDT 2011
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Daniel Buck <bucksburg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> KAI THN DOXAN THN PARA TOU MONOU QEOU OU ZHTEITE --John 5:44
> " . . . and seek not the honour that comes from God alone?"
>
> "A Grammar of New Testament Greek," by James Hope Moulton, Vol. III-Syntax, by
> Nigel Turner, pg. 225-226: "There is therefore not surprisingly some confusion
> of monos with the adv. monon . . . In Jn 5:44 monou is best TAKEN ADVERBIALLY;
> not from him who alone is God, but only from God (Jewish monotheism was
> unimpeachable; Jesus was referring to their love of human praise), in spite of
> the word order. Lk 5:21 adv. monos."
>
> Bible translators generally appear not to agree that MONOU should be taken
> adverbially here; can anyone comment on why?
>
> Daniel Buck
>
Alford has this footnote:
MONOU’ between TOU and QEOU. It needs to be either after QEOU (Mt
4:4;12:4; 17:8, or before TOU QEOU, Lk 5:21; 6:4; Heb 9:7) to be
adverbial – Alford, p. 753.
At any rate, I don't see any need to read it adverbially to make a
better sense, if that's what we want.
Oun Kwon.
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