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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...

αὐτοῦ for its antecedent). But the construction is Hebraic (1920–2) as well as natural. In one or two passages, a word, or clause, with neuter noun or adjective, might be either subject or object, e.g. 15:2 πᾶν κλῆμα ἐν ἐμοὶ μὴ φέρον καρπὸν αἴρει αὐτό. In the Parable of the Sower, Matthew and Luke have ὁ ἔχων where Mark has ὃς ἔχει1, but there ὁ ἔχων is the subject of ἀκουέτω. [2422] The following requires separate discussion, 17:2 (R.V.) “Even
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