The Semantic Range of the Article-noun-kai'-noun Plural Construction in the New Testament
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In this article the author seeks to demonstrate that the syntax of the article-noun-kai< -noun plural construction has been largely misunderstood. It does not fit the Granville Sharp rule because the nouns are plural. Nor is its semantic range shut up to absolute distinction or absolute identity. After an exhaustive treatment of the construction in the NT, it is affirmed that there are three other semantic possibilities. A proper semantic grid helps in seeing possibilities in certain passages which have hitherto gone unnoticed and in omitting certain options (e.g., that 'pastors"= "teachers" in Eph 4:11) which have been assumed true. * * *
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