Re: Anarthrous Subject with Articular Pred Nom?

Micheal Palmer (mwpalmer@earthlink.net)
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 20:57:16 -0700 (PDT)

At 3:04 PM -0400 9/5/97, Apokrisis1@aol.com wrote:

>Interesting. If Lane McGaughy (Toward a Descriptive Analysis of EINAI as a
>Linking Verb in New Testament Greek [Missoula, MT: University of Montanna,
>1972], 53) is correct in stating, "If both words or word clusters are
>determined by an article, the first one is the subject," then it would seem
>those scribes who used the article with THEOS understood it to be the
>subject, not the predicate.

Hmm. That's true. I guess even scribes can make mistakes. :->

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