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Title: This One Was in Beginning With God
The text is, “οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν”.
οὗτος -> masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun -> this one
ἦν -> third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb -> was
ἐν -> preposition taking the dative for its object word -> in
ἀρχῇ -> feminine, singular, dative noun -> beginning
πρὸς -> preposition taking the accusative for its object word -> with
τὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative article -> the NRIEH*
θεόν -> masculine, singular, accusative noun -> God
The meaning of this verse is,
This one was in beginning with God.
*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”.
οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν (John 1:2) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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