RE: Re: Johannine ARCH (was Jn.1:1b word order)

From: Andrew Kulikovsky (anku@celsiustech.com.au)
Date: Tue Feb 10 1998 - 20:21:38 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie [SMTP:jonathan@texcel.no]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 11:24 AM
> To: lakr
> Cc: lakr@netcom.com; Revcraigh@aol.com; B-Greek@virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: Re: Johannine ARCH (was Jn.1:1b word order)
>
> At 04:35 PM 2/10/98 -0800, lakr wrote:
>
> >Jonathan, I don't think I said that the action of HN did not happen
> >in the past, with reference to when John narrates. However, I don't
> >think this is what Craig means. I understood him to mean that the
> 'tense'
> >of HN because of it's tense form extends into the infinite unbounded
> past,
> >because of the nature of the verb itself. I don't think you really
> >believe this is the case, do you ?
>
> No, I believe that HN refers to a past time which is identified as EN
> ARCH.
> At this time, the Word was.
>
        [Andrew]
        Which implies that he existed before the beginning.

        If John wanted to communicate that Jesus came into being at the
beginning he would have used GINOMAI not EIMI.

        cheers,
        Andrew

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