Johannine Grammar

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Publisher:

A & C Black

, 1906

Overview

Combined with his Johannine Vocabulary, E. A. Abbott’s Johannine Grammar is the most thorough assessment of the language of the Johannine literature ever written. The book covers the Gospel of John, the First, Second, and Third Epistles of John and Revelation in so much detail that it could be considered a technical commentary as well as a grammar. Grammarians and commentators have often observed that the Johannine writings contain more difficulties than the rest of the Greek New Testament, and Abbot’s Johannine Grammar provides valuable assistance.

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Key Features

• Preface by the author
• Notes on various chapters
• Bibliographical references and indexes

Contents

Top Highlights

“But in favour of Westcott’s view there is a small point of grammar to which attention might have been called, as will be seen from the two passages to be next quoted.” (Page viii)

“The following requires separate discussion, 17:2 (R.V.) ‘Even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that whatsoever thou hast given him, to them he should give eternal life,’ (A.V.) ‘that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him².’ R.V., though closer to the Greek than A.V., has substituted ‘whatsoever ‘for ‘all that.’ Grammatically, the Greek of the italicised words can only be construed as follows: ‘That he may give all that thou hast given him—[namely] eternal life—to them.’ But the previous sentence mentions no persons that could be here referred to as ‘them,’ so that this makes no sense. D alters ‘he may give ‘into ‘may have ‘and omits ‘to them,’ leaving ‘that all that thou hast given to him may have eternal life.” (Page 309)

“Westcott says ‘It contains the reflections of the evangelist and is not a continuation of the words of the Lord.’” (Page viii)

“but it may mean ‘we all,’ ‘we disciples of Christ,’” (Page 311)

Product Details

• Title: Johannine Grammar
• Author: Edwin A. Abbot
• Publisher: Adam and Charles Black
• Publication Date: 1906
• Pages: 687

About Edwin Abbott Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland (1884).