Frankly, I'm bowled over with your boldness here. And intregued! Other
opinions on the way?? By the way, here's a data report: 1 Jn 1:19 is
only occurrence of this plural type of thing for FANEROW (except 2 Cor.
3:3). All others are sing., and no OTI clauses connected that I saw.
>>What find interesting especially here is this hINA solitarium clause that seems to be distinctly Johannine. I have no
reference works with me in my Blue Ridge hideaway, but I suppose this is
usually explained as an elliptical construction
with an introductory clause omitted that was something like TAUTA OUN
EGENETO.<<
This is exactly what our references say about ALL' hINA (e.g., BDF sec.
448[7]). At least one example in Mark, but most in John as you
suspected. (BDF's reference to Epictetus 1.12.17 should be looked at in
context--it doesn't seem to be quite the same thing.)
A message to "little Greeks" (as one friend recently called himself in
private email): keep hacking away. After 20 years I still am learning
lots of fun stuff about GNT.
S. M. Baugh
Westminster Theological Seminary
in California