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J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan’s lexicon was among the first to interact with the thousands of Greek papyri, ostraca, and inscriptions discovered in Egypt during the mid- to late-19th century. These papyrus scraps and potsherds, which date from between the 3rd century B.C. and 8th century A.D., are the written record of everyday life in that time. They are the business contracts, personal emails,...

hands with, and lending support to, the almost unanimous tradition of the Western Church.1 A corresponding caution must be observed in connexion with the construction of ἵνα. Classical Greek has taught us to expect that ἵνα construed with the subjunctive denotes purpose, but in Hellenistic Greek this has been extended to include a consecutive usage, and sometimes, as in modern Greek, a simple statement of fact. When, therefore, in Jn 17:3 the Fourth Evangelist writes—αὕτη δέ ἐστιν ἡ αἰώνιος
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