01-10-2004, 08:38 AM
drmlanc Wrote:In John 1:20, John the Baptist uses the enana, and he is not God so... the enana point is invalid?
/eno -no/ just means "It's me" or "I am." I'm not truly sure that weight it should carry, and given the weight that it has in most thetic Christian theology, I think it should be approached with caution. It seems to stem from Septuagint tradition, where God's name was translated into the present tense.
Remember that AHYH /'ehyeh/ does not mean "I am" but "I will be," as YHWH /yehwoh/ (whose direct Aramaic cognate is /nehwo'/) would mean not "He is" but "He will be."
With this in mind, /eno -no/ would be in the wrong tense for this weight to be warranted.
Shlomo,
-Steve-o
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