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by schwartz
April 24th, 2024, 4:26 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: What is the difference between ὁ θεὸς and ὁ θεός?
Replies: 3
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Re: What is the difference between ὁ θεὸς and ὁ θεός?

Jonathan Robie wrote: April 24th, 2024, 7:52 am Did my answer help?
Yes, thank you. Is the basic idea just reproducing the pronunciation that comes naturally/instinctively to a native speaker, and it only seems needlessly complicated to someone who's trying to learn it from a language like English that doesn't bother with accent marks?
by schwartz
April 23rd, 2024, 5:37 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: What is the difference between ὁ θεὸς and ὁ θεός?
Replies: 3
Views: 12275

What is the difference between ὁ θεὸς and ὁ θεός?

John 20:28 says …ὁ θεός μου. 1 John 4:8 says …ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν. Why is the direction of the accent mark apparently context-dependent? And which would be correct to refer to the phrase by itself embedded in English text? David Bentley Hart, who presumably knows how these things work, writes in the ...

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