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Title -> And He Said to Them, All Men
The text is, “καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· πᾶς ἄνθρωπος πρῶτον τὸν καλὸν οἶνον τίθησιν καὶ ὅταν μεθυσθῶσιν τὸν ἐλάσσω· σὺ τετήρηκας τὸν καλὸν οἶνον ἕως ἄρτι”.
καὶ: coordinating conjunction -> and
λέγει -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> says CER* said
αὐτῷ -> third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun -> to him
πᾶς -> masculine, singular, nominative adjective -> every
ἄνθρωπος: masculine, singular, nominative noun -> man
πρῶτον is an adverb -> first
τὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative article -> the
καλὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative adjective -> good
οἶνον -> masculine, singular, accusative noun -> wine
τίθησιν -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> serves
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and
ὅταν -> subordinating temporal conjunction -> when
μεθυσθῶσιν -> third person, plural, aorist, passive, subjunctive verb -> they might be drunk
τὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative article -> the
ἐλάσσω -> masculine, singular, accusative, comparative adjective -> poor
σὺ -> second person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun -> you
τετήρηκας -> second person, singular, perfect, active, indicative verb -> kept
τὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative article -> the
καλὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative adjective -> good
οἶνον -> masculine, singular, accusative noun -> wine
ἕως -> improper preposition taking the genitive for its object word -> until
ἄρτι -> temporal adverb -> now
The -> of this verse is,
And said to him,’Every man serves the good wine first, and when they might be drunk, the poor. You kept the good wine until now.'”
*CER: indicates a non-literal, but good translation. In the first example here, the verb “ἔρχεται” is present tense, which in the indicative mood often can be rendered in the aorist tense, since it expresses linear action not in the present but at some point in the past. The designation CER is equivalent to “Contextual English Rendering”.
καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· πᾶς ἄνθρωπος (John 2:10) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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