From: Bill Ross (wross@farmerstel.com)
Date: Sat May 22 1999 - 23:25:13 EDT
PROS also means "with."
An example is the opening of John's Gospel:
EN ARKH HN hO LOGOS KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON THEON. ("In the beginning was
the Word and the Word was *with* God.")
Since you use the accusative with the object in either case, only context
distinuishes whether you mean "with" or "towards."
In the example above, it is generally taken as meaning "with." What is your
friends' theory about the word?
Bill Ross
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim West [mailto:jwest@highland.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 9:22 PM
To: Biblical Greek
Cc: b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Pros
At 06:45 PM 5/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I am not a student in Greek, but I plan to be as soon as I am able. I am
>having a discusion with someone about something, and they brought up the
>Greek word "pros". Which is commonly translated as "with", I suppose.
>Does "pros" convey something more than just "with"?
It means to or towards. With is the greek preposition "sun"
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