Re: Present tence copulative verbs

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Sat Oct 31 1998 - 13:01:59 EST


At 09:52 AM 9/1/98 -0700, dalmatia@eburg.com wrote:
>Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
>> I think that there is widespread agreement, regardless of theological
>> perspective, that this verse says Jesus existed before Abraham and has
>> continued to exist up until the current time.
 
>I am wondering, however, if the EGW EIMI's reference to Exodus may
>have been what triggered the stoning.
 
Why do you see this as a reference to Exodus 3:14? I just spent 40 minutes
looking at the two passages, and posted my results to B-Greek. As I said
before, I would have thought hO WN would be a clear reference to Exodus
3:14, but I see no compelling reason to construe EGW EIMI as such.

Jonathan

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