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C. K. Barrett’s Commentary on the Greek text of the Gospel of John, long recognized as a major contribution to theological studies, has become the standard work in the field. His comprehensive introduction to the Gospel deals not only with questions of date and authorship, but also with its theology and its place in developing Christian thought and institutional life. This is followed by a...

101a (a baraitah); Lev. R. 20.7; Song of Songs R. 8.13. θεός being without the article, is predicative and describes the nature of the Word. The absence of the article indicates that the Word is God, but is not the only being of whom this is true; if ὁ θεός had been written it would have been implied that no divine being existed outside the second person of the Trinity; see M. III, 183 (if Turner’s observation about word-order is correct it takes away the relevance of Haenchen’s reference to 11:25
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