From: Brian Swedburg (brian@discoveryhills.org)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 14:46:34 EDT
Carl,
Thanks so much for your reply!
Brian
"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
> At 3:11 PM -0700 4/26/00, Brian Swedburg wrote:
> >Greetings,
> > How do you feel about the use of OTI in 1 John 3:11 figuring into
> >the possible unfolding of the letters structure at this point?
> >
> >Should the fact that this conjunction is considered by some to always be
> >subordinate, argue against the writer starting a new "paragraph" here?
> >
> >Can OTI be legitimately viewed as kicking off a new paragraph, a mere
> >"surface phenomenon", as Sherman and Tuggy suggest?
>
> hOTI hAUTH ESTIN hH AGGELIA hHN HKOUSATE AP' ARCHS, hINA AGAPWMEN ALLHLOUS.
>
> I'd say that the erroneous notion in this instance is that hOTI should
> "always" be subordinate. In this instance one would be hard put to argue
> that its meaning is distinct from GAR is this sentence were written, hAUTH
> GAR ESTIN hH AGGELIA ... --and I'd translate it, "This, after all, is the
> message that you heard from the outset, that we should love each other ..."
>
> So far as paragraphing is concerned, I'm inclined to think that the editors
> tend to be rather arbitrary about this and to divide the discourse in terms
> of a target language's practice, whereas it is clear that 3:11 DOES offer
> an explanation for the assertion in 3:10.
>
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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