From: Steven Sheeley (ssheeley@shorter.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 08:23:04 EST
Actually, you could argue for either (or both, in true Johannine fashion)
meanings not just contextually, but also through syntactical rules. The
question would hinge on one's interpretation of TOU PATROS; is it an
objective or subjective genitive?
On another level, in the Johannine context, one should also be careful not
to exclude the possibility that hH AGAPH TOU PATROS is not a circulocution
for Jesus himself, so that the verse would imply that anyone who loves the
world and its "things" does not have Jesus in him/her.
Steven Sheeley
Associate Professor of Religion
Associate Dean of the College
Shorter College
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From: One of the McKays [mailto:musicke@ozemail.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:31 AM
To: Biblical Greek
Subject: [b-greek] 1 John 2:15
EAN TIS AGAPAi TON KOSMON, OUK ESTIN hH AGAPH TOU PATROS EN AUTWi.
Does this mean that the one who loves the world has no love for the Father,
or that the Father's love is not in him/her?
Contextually, I think I could argue for both!
David McKay
musicke@ozemail.com.au
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