From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 15:28:25 EDT
At 1:13 PM -0400 4/3/00, Paul, Doug wrote:
>In 1 John 1:3 the following is found
>
>KAI H KOINWNIA DE H hHMETRA
>
>DE appears to be between a noun and its adjective. I know that
>DE is postpositive. It this just another an example
>except as a result DE appears in the midst of something taken
>as a unit or is there another answer?
>
I think we'd have to say that the author is thinking of KAI hH KOINWNIA as
a unit. If I were really attempting to reproduce the impact of the
word-order, I might make this: "And (DE) fellowship as well, OURS, that is
..."
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