Re: John 13:34 - A hINA Clause with the force of an imperative?

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 22 1999 - 21:05:55 EST


At 7:21 PM -0500 12/22/99, Bret Hicks wrote:
>Carl,
>
> You wrote,
>
>
>> Although one might call this an indirect command, it really is a noun
>> clause, as are quite a few hINA + subjunctive clauses in Koine (= NA +
>> subjunctive in Modern Greek); here I'd understand it as appositional to
>> ENTOLHN: ENTOLHN KAINHN DIDWMI hUMIN, hINA AGAPATE ALLHLOUS: "I give you a
>> new charge, that you love each other." Actually the Modern Greek NA + Subj.
>> clause functions as an infinitive, and the hINA clause here could as well
>> be conveyed as one: "I give you a new charge: to love each other."
>
> That is how I understood the first hINA clause in the verse. Do you then
>consider that the second clause is parallel to the first, and that both are
>then standing in apposition to
>ENTOLHN? This makes a lot of sense, but what is the relation to KAQWS HGAPHSA
>hUMAS in that case? How would these clauses relate to this section of the
>verse?

I would understand it as repetition: "I give you a new commandment, to love
each other--to love each other just as I loved you."

Carl W. Conrad
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