Article with Events
Posted: February 10th, 2019, 11:18 pm
I’ve read several books now by Christian authors, they don’t claim to be experts on Greek, but basically they say if an event is mentioned in Greek and has an article it must have a previous reference. Whether previously mentioned in that book or any other book in the Bible.
I’m interested to hear opinions on this.
From what I have seen:
Obviously it is common in the NT for a previously mentioned SOMETHING to have an article to point back to the original mention. However, even then this doesn’t cross over books. Ie. If Luke mentions something anarthrously, if say one of the other gospels mention the same event or idea, they don’t put an article at the first appearance. In fact the first appearance in the next book seems to be anarthrous for that specific book and others articular. Ie. Even when this occurs it’s not Bible wide.
At the same time it seems like the first appearance of events or concepts can have the article even if not previously mentioned, it would seem for other reasons.
Have these writers just misunderstood what has been written on this topic or am I missing something?
I’m interested to hear opinions on this.
From what I have seen:
Obviously it is common in the NT for a previously mentioned SOMETHING to have an article to point back to the original mention. However, even then this doesn’t cross over books. Ie. If Luke mentions something anarthrously, if say one of the other gospels mention the same event or idea, they don’t put an article at the first appearance. In fact the first appearance in the next book seems to be anarthrous for that specific book and others articular. Ie. Even when this occurs it’s not Bible wide.
At the same time it seems like the first appearance of events or concepts can have the article even if not previously mentioned, it would seem for other reasons.
Have these writers just misunderstood what has been written on this topic or am I missing something?