Re: Question on John 17:3

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 15:03:18 EST


At 8:44 AM -0800 12/27/99, Robert W Meyers wrote:
>Would someone tell me whether the Granville Sharp rule
>has any applicability here?
>
>"The only True God" KAI "Jesus Christ Whom You sent?"
>
>Is the ON preceding APESTEILAS regarded as a second
>definite article disqualifying the Granville Sharp here?
>
>In that case, does it negate the possibility of identifying
>to two phrases as an identity? (cf 1 John 5:20, etc)?

The text reads hON APESTEILAS here; hON is the relative pronoun acc. sg.
m.: "whom you sent." So no article is involved here at all, and no GS; a
distinction is clearly being made.

Carl W. Conrad
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