[B-Greek] 1 John 4:19
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Sat May 19 06:07:07 EDT 2007
Hey Andy, if you look at AGAPWMEN one more time closely you'll see a circumflex accent over the omega. That lets you know that there is a contraction going on. Verbs whos stem end in epsilon, alpha, and omicron, when they add the PN endings change.
So when the alpha contracts with the omicron, it changes to omega. A + O = W.
So basically you have AGAPA + OMEN = AGAPWMEN
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Kelton Graham
KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
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From: Andy Kaylor <andy_kaylor at yahoo.com>
> I'm a newbie working through 1 John, and tonight I was looking at 1 John 4:19
>
> hHMEIS AGAPWMEN hOTI AUTOS PRWTOS HGAPHSEN hHMAS
>
> My first thought was that AGAPWMEN was subjunctive, so I Englished it as "Let us
> love," then I saw that every translation I can find translates it as indicative,
> "We love."
>
> But AGAPWMEN could be subjunctive or indicative, right? So is it the presence
> of the (emphatic?) hHMEIS that should tell me this is indicative? Or is it
> context? Or is there another clue I've missed?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andy Kaylor
> Beaverton, Oregon
>
>
>
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