καθὼς ἀπέστειλέν με ὁ ζῶν πατὴρ (John 6:57)

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Title:  Just as He, the Living Father, Sending Me

The text is, “καθὼς ἀπέστειλέν με ὁ ζῶν πατὴρ κἀγὼ ζῶ διὰ τὸν πατέρα, καὶ ὁ τρώγων με κἀκεῖνος ζήσει δι’ ἐμέ”.

“καθὼς”:  subordinating conjunction meaning “just as”.

“ἀπέστειλέν”:  aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “he, sending”.

“με”:  first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.

“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.

“ζῶν”:  present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “living”.

“πατὴρ”:  masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “Father”.

“κἀγὼ”:  crasis of “καὶ” (coordinating conjunction)  and “‘έγω” (first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun), meaning “and I”.

“ζῶ”:  first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “live”.

“διὰ”:  preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “because of”.

“τὸν”:  masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.

“πατέρα”:  masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “Father”.

“καὶ”:  coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.

“ὁ”:  masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.

“τρώγων”:  present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “one eating”.

“με”:  first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.

“κἀκεῖνος”:  crasis of “καὶ” (coordinating conjunction)  and “ἐκεῖ” (adverb of place), meaning “and there” or “and that one”.

“ζήσει”:  third person, singular, future, active, indicative verb meaning “will live”.

“δι”:  preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “because of”.

“ἐμέ”:  first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.

The meaning of this verse is,

Just as he, the living Father, sending me, and I live because of the Father, and the one eating me, that one will live, because of me.

CC BY 4.0 καθὼς ἀπέστειλέν με ὁ ζῶν πατὴρ (John 6:57) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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