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ESTIN, HN with nominatives
Well my search methods were far from perfect but I looked for nominative
nouns (with or without the article) on either side of ESTIN and HN with the
following results: (Note that I would have missed some of
the article+participle but I picked up a couple)
John 1.4 the life was the light AN is AN
John 3.29 the [one] having the bride bridegroom is AP N is
John 5.15 Jesus is the [one] having made him whole N is AP
John 20.31 Jesus is the Christ N is AN
1John 1.5 the God light is AN N is
1John 3.4 the sin is the lawlessness AN is AN
1John 4.8 the God love is AN N is
1John 4.15 Jesus is the Son N is AN
1John 4.16 the God love is AN N is
1John 5.1 Jesus is the Christ N is AN
1John 5.6 the Spirit is the truth AN is AN
It strikes me as interesting that AN ANARTHROUS NOUN ALWAYS *PRECEDES* THE
COPULA IN JOHN. It is also interesting that while John has no problem
using the article with Ihsous, he never does so with the copula and that
while John uses the article in all the instances of Theos above, he
doesn't in John 1.1c
There seem to be two issues:
* The word order with the copula
* The use of the article with Theos
I have forgotten which one of the two we are actually addressing :-)
James K. Tauber, Undergraduate Student ``Perplexed but not
Centre for Linguistics, UWA, Australia despairing''
E-mail: jtauber@tartarus.uwa.edu.au - Paul (2 Cor 4.8)
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