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Title: This is the Bread, From Heaven Having Come Down
The text is, “οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς, οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον· ὁ τρώγων τοῦτον τὸν ἄρτον ζήσει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα”.
“οὗτός”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“ἄρτος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “bread”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ἐξ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “from” or “out of”.
“οὐρανοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “heaven”.
“καταβάς”: aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “having come down”.
“οὐ” negative particle meaning “not”.
“καθὼς”: subordinating conjunction meaning “just as”.
“ἔφαγον”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “ate”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“πατέρες”: masculine, plural, nominative noun meaning “fathers”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἀπέθανον”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “died”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“τρώγων”: present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “eating one”.
“τοῦτον”: masculine, singular, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“ἄρτον”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “bread”.
“ζήσει”: third person, singular, future, active, indicative verb meaning “will live”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “into”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“αἰῶνα”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “eternity”.
The meaning of this verse is,
This is the bread, having come down out of heaven, not just as the fathers ate and died; the one eating this bread will live into the eternity”.
οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς (John 6:58) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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