Re: Mounce: hO LOGOS HN QEOS

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Fri Jan 02 1998 - 08:42:47 EST


At 07:18 AM 1/2/98 -0600, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>At 6:25 AM -0600 1/2/98, Jonathan Robie wrote:
 
>>KAI hO LOGOS HN QEOS = "and the Word was a God"
>>KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS = "and the Word was God"
 
>I'm from Missouri; you're going to have to show me! In sum, I don't believe
>there's a difference due to word order as such. I think that the difference
>in word order is rhetorical..
 
I assume the rhetorical difference is basically a matter of emphasis, with
greater emphasis on the noun that occurs first, eh?

Jonathan
 
jonathan@texcel.no
Texcel Research
http://www.texcel.no



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