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πλήρης in John 1:14


A.D. Riddle

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Instant details parses πλήρης as adj fem sing nom.

 

Seems to me like this should be masculine, not feminine (they have the same form).

 

If it is feminine, would it be modifying σάρξ?

 

A.D.

 

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I'm looking at Instant Details for NA28. It parses it twice, once as masc, once as fem.

 

Marcos' syntax of the GNT shows it qualifying δόξα, which is also feminine. I agree.

 

Just also checked Koivisto's Diagrams of the GNT. He concurs. See more complete post below.

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Thanks. I have neither of those resources--on the long list of things I hope to get some day.

 

So the "glory" is full of grace and truth?

 

δόξαν is genitive, so πλήρης has not declined to match the case. Not a problem apparently since Mounce, Morphology says, "πλήρης is sometimes indeclinable, normally when it would be in the genitive" (235 fn. 5).

CORRECTION: δόξαν is accusative. So there is case disagreement between it and πλήρης.

 

Checked a few translations, and they seem to take πλήρης as modifying πατρός or μονογενοῦς, perhaps ὁ λόγος. If they are right, then we would have to analyze πλήρης as masc.

 

A.D.

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Isn't δόξαν accusative here ? The article would suggest so. MBG shows it as such.

 

thx

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Here's a screenshot showing both resources.

 

When I scrolled over on the Greek diagrams and looked at them more closely, I noticed Rex Koivisto actually has three(!)  alternatives. The first modifies λόγος, the second modifies δόξα, the third modifies μονογενής.

 

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I haven't got the syntax charts on my phone but I wonder how Marco modelled it.

 

Thx
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Here's a bit cleaner picture of Marco's syntax tree:

 

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Thx. Gonna have to look more at this one. Little surprised by the handling of "para patros".

 

Thx

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Well, at least Koivisto confirms there are different ways to take this. I do not think δόξαν would be my first (or second) choice as the term being qualified by πλήρης.

 

A.D.

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