From: Ken Smith (kens@180solutions.com)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 14:45:32 EST
I expect what they probably mean is that it isn't in the vocative case,
i.e., isn't a case of address. Doing my best to leave theological
presuppositions aside, I would probably understand hO KURIOS MOU KAI hO
QEOS MOU as a somewhat elliptical way of saying, [SU EI] hO KURIOS MOU
KAI hO QEOS MOU, in which case we would expect the nominative rather
than the vocative case. (A parallel confession, in the form of a
complete sentence, is found, of course, in Matt. 16:16 -- SU EI hO
CRISTOS, hO HUIOS TOU QEOU TOU ZWNTOS.) If Thomas' confession were
addressed to the Father, it strikes me as awful close to swearing, and I
have a hard time imagining John closing his Gospel that way -- but with
that observation, I'm moving away from grammar on a particularly
dangerous verse to do so, so I'll close there.
Ken Smith
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> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:13 AM
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> Subject: [b-greek] John 20:28
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> Greetings,
> I was talking to a person on another forum and he maintained
> that grammatically HO KYRIOS in John 20:28 was referring to
> God the Father. Setting aside theological considerations,
> does the grammer allow for this understanding?
>
> Thanks
> Randy Shrode
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