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Title -> And No Has One Ascended into the Heaven
The text is, “καὶ οὐδεὶς ἀναβέβηκεν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν εἰ μὴ ὁ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου”
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -?-> and
οὐδεὶς -> masculine, singular, nominative, indefinite adjective -?-> no one
ἀναβέβηκεν -> third person, singular, perfect, active, indicative verb -?-> has ascended
εἰς: proposition taking the accusative for its object word and -?-> into
τὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative article -?-> the
οὐρανὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative noun -?-> heaven
εἰ -> subordinating conditional conjunction -?-> except
μὴ -> negative particle -?-> lest NRIEH**
ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -?-> the
ἐκ -> preposition taking the genitive for its object word and -?-> from or out of
του -> masculine, singular, genitive article -?-> the NRIEH
οὐρανοῦ -> masculine, singular, genitive noun -?-> heaven
καταβάς -> aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb -?-> descending
ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -?-> the
υἱὸς -> masculine, singular, nominative noun -?-> son
τοῦ -> masculine, singular, genitive article -?-> the NRIEH
ἀνθρώπου -> masculine, singular, genitive noun -?-> of man
The -?meaning of this verse is,
”And no one has ascended into the heaven except the one descending out of the heaven, the son of man.”
**NRIEH: For the sake of clarity the word is translated into English, but to avoid such odd constructions as applying a definite article (“the”) to a substantive sufficiently determined by its being a proper noun, or by the use of a qualifier other than the definite article. An example would be the basic translation “Peter said to the Jesus”; the word “the” is completely unnecessary. There are many examples of this in the New Testament. The designation NRIEH is equivalent to “Not Rendered Into English Here”.
καὶ οὐδεὶς ἀναβέβηκεν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν (John 3:13) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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