From: Steve Lovullo (SLovullo@etcconnect.com)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 11:37:14 EST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixonps@juno.com [mailto:dixonps@juno.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Cc: b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: hO QEOS in Phil. 3:19
> If in a double articular construction either noun may be the subject and
> the other the predicate nominative, and if the meaning is the same either
> way, then what we have is identification or definition whereby the one is
> being identified with the other to the exclusion of all else.
>
> If you deny this, then what significance, if any, do you find with the
> double articular construction?
As I pointed out in my first post, the articles seem to be what would
customarily be used to signify possession. I fail to see how this
necessarily identifies one with the other "to the exclusion of all else." If
I say "my computer is my friend," this in no way suggests that my computer
is my only friend to the exclusion of all other friends, or that my computer
is ONLY my friend and nothing else. Would we say that because their belly is
their God it therefore is NOT also their means of processing food? It seems
that any number of things could be predicated about their belly. How would
this constitute their belly as being ONLY their God "to the exclusion of all
else?"
Steve Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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