From: Charles Skallerud (karolus@wf.net)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 08:18:37 EST
<x-charset iso-8859-1>Don't these two interpretations overlap? While the sense of 'in this way'
is primary, the event described is inherently spectacular. Perhaps the
context makes hOUTOS rather expansive and intense. I've always taken it in
your sense and am now just trying to see what the other might mean. I
don't have Brown to hand so I'm not basing my thoughts on his
interpretation.
Charles Skallerud
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From: "Joseph A. Weaks" <jweaks@delta.is.tcu.edu>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 3:08 AM
Subject: hOUTWS Jn3.16 "In this way"
> Listers,
> I have often made the point of explaining to church folk the function
> of hOUTWS in John 3, as an adverb of hOUTOS meaning 'this-ly' or 'in
> this way'. I have a web page called This Weaks' Hermeneutic where I
> post a weekly lectionary reflection as a resource for preachers, and
> this week I made similar comments. You see the whole statement on
> This Weaks' Hermeneutic at
> http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~jweaks/herm.html
>
> But I was surprised to read that Raymond Brown supports the popular
> reading of 'so' as an intensive of extent, that God loved the world
> 'sooooooo much'. It seemed silly to me, in the context of the whole
> chapter which speaks about the ways God has acted in the world.
> Anyone care to give me the argument for the intensive of extent
> interpretation of hOUTWS?
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