[B-Greek] MONOU QEOU in John 5:44

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 26 17:44:56 EDT 2011


τοῦ μόνου θεοῦ 
TOU MONOU QEOU

The position of μόνου MONOU wedged in between the article and the noun 
indicates that it is adjectival rather than adverbial.  If you change that, you 
might as well say that it means whatever you want it to say.

 george
gfsomsel 


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From: Daniel Buck <bucksburg at yahoo.com>
To: b greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sat, March 26, 2011 2:28:56 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] MONOU QEOU in John 5:44

Trying one last time on the quote...


Here's an interesting opinion from Wieland Willker's Textual Commentary:
Zahn (Comm. Jo) notes that PARA TOU MONOU QEOU does not mean "from God alone", 
but "from the one who alone is God."

There's some good evidence that this is an ancient way of translating the 
phrase. Here is how the Old Latin evidence breaks down:


from the one who alone is God: ff2 aur q 
from him who is God alone: r1
from God alone:  e g1mg f l 
from the only God: a d c 
from him that is the only: b
from the only:  a


HT to Barry Hofstetter, to whom Latin always sounds sweet.

Daniel Buck
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