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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
John 20:28
My Lord and my God. Both nouns have the article, which is the point.
John 20:28, in every translation this tool compares.
My manager and my friend. Both definite, both addressed to one person standing there. Nothing hedged.
Because this is the clearest confession in the Gospel and it is grammatically the mirror image of John 1:1: there the predicate lacked the article, here both nouns have it and are addressed directly.
Every version reads my Lord and my God.
ὁ κύριός μου καὶ ὁ θεός μου
Ho kurios mou kai ho theos mou. Both nouns articular, both with the possessive, and the sentence is addressed to Jesus, which the narrative states. Read with John 1:1, the Gospel opens and closes on the same claim made in two different constructions.
English carries this accurately. What English cannot show is that the grammar here is the counterpart of the prologue.
When a book's last confession uses the vocabulary of its first sentence, the pair is the structure of the book.
My Lord and my God is universal.
- The articular nouns against the anarthrous predicate at John 1:1
- Said to him, John 20:28
- John 20:30-31 states the purpose immediately after
