dimi wrote: ↑May 6th, 2019, 3:05 pm
That's an appositive isn't it? Like in Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστὴς, take out the article and you have Ἰωάννης βαπτιστὴς, John, the baptist. Same here
εἰ μὴ ἀφ' οὗ γέγονεν ὁ ἀληθινὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ Θεὸς Λόγος ἐν ἀνθρώποις;
unless godly truth manifests out of God, the Word, in men? (οὗ referring to Θεὸς Λόγος)
I have forgotten, almost, what an appositive is.
" ... take out the article ... "
The article is the key to unraveling the syntax. What does the article pair with? If we look at numerous examples of hyperbaton in Athenasius we find that the article and its substantive are used as end pieces which make a bundle/package and between the article and its substantive we find finite verbs, prepositional phrases, participle clauses ... all which contribute in some manner to the main clause. So the article is important and that leads us to one problem with this citation. There is more than one substantive in the nominative. The pattern found other "bundles" suggests joining ὁ with Λόγος with τοῦ Θεοῦ as an argument. The placement of Θεὸς is not what you would expect for a constituent in
apposition, is it? Again, I haven't cracked a grammar over this.
C. Stirling Bartholomew