From: Carlton Winbery (winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net)
Date: Sun Dec 10 1995 - 12:10:10 EST
John 5:39 ERAUNATE TAS GRAFAS, hOTI hUMEIS DOKEITE EN AUTAIS ZWHN AIWNION
EXEIN KAI EKEINAI EISIN hAI MARTUROUSAI PERI EMOU 40 KAI OU QELETE ELQEIN
PROS ME hINA ZWHN EXHTE.
"You search the Scriptures because _you_ think that you have life in them
_but_ these are that which bears witness to me and you do not wish to come
to me so that you may have life."
Can the first KAI have the function of a mild adversative like DE? Is not
there a contrast between the fact that they hoped to find life in the
Scriptures and Jesus' claim in John that life was to be found in himself?
The function that he assigns to Scripture then is to witness to him in whom
life was to be found.
Is this a possible reading of this sentence?
Calton L. Winbery
Prof. Religion
LA College, Pineville, La
winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:37:34 EDT