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Title -> Amen, Amen, I Say to You
The text is, “ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι ὅτι ὃ οἴδαμεν λαλοῦμεν καὶ ὃ ἑωράκαμεν μαρτυροῦμεν, καὶ τὴν μαρτυρίαν ἡμῶν οὐ λαμβάνετε”.
ἀμὴν -> Hebraicized particle -> truly
ἀμὴν -> Hebraicized particle -> truly
λέγω -> first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> I say
σοι -> second person, personal, singular, dative pronoun -> to you
ὅτι -> subordinating conjunction -> that
ὃ -> definite, relative, neuter, singular, accusative pronoun -> what
οἴδαμεν -> first person, plural, perfect, active, indicative verb -> we have known
λαλοῦμεν -> first person, plural, present, active, indicative verb -> we say
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and
ὃ -> definite, relative, neuter, singular, accusative pronoun -> what
ἑωράκαμεν -> first person, plural, perfect, active, indicative verb -> we have seen
μαρτυροῦμεν -> first person, plural, present, active, indicative verb -> we bear witness
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and
τὴν -> feminine, singular, accusative article -> the NRIEH**
μαρτυρίαν -> feminine, singular, accusative noun -> testimony
ἡμῶν -> first person, personal, plural, genitive pronoun -> our
οὐ -> negative particle -> not
λαμβάνετε -> second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb -> you do receive
The meaning of this verse is,
‘Truly, truly, I say to you, that what we have known we say, and what we have seen we bear witness, and you do not receive our testimony.’”
**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”.
ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι (John 3:11) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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