From: McKay family (music@fl.net.au)
Date: Fri Apr 03 1998 - 21:58:26 EST
David Haeuser comments:
>Well, all word division is also secondary, isn't it? Does that make all
word
>division also "tendentious and tenuous and theological"? It seems to me
that
>most of the punctuation in the GNT editions we use are none of the three,
>but simply a help in seeing at a glance the implicit structure of the
>paragraph or sentence. At the same time it is not part of the original
text,
>so that scholars can disagree at times about where a comma should be
placed,
>whether a particular sentence is a question or a statement, etc.
LASTYEARSOMEONEPOINTEDOUTTHATTHEREAREONLYAFEWPLACESI
NTHEENTIRENEWTESTAMENTWHERETHEDIVISIONOFWORDSISAMBIGUOUS
Interesting thread. I see from Larry's post that the previous discussion was
just before I got on the net.
David McKay
music@fl.net.au
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