The use of μονογενής (Nestle1904GBI)¶

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• 1 - Introduction
  • 1.1 - Why is this relevant?
  • 1.2 - Translating into Text-Fabric queries
• 2 - Load Text-Fabric app and data
• 3 - Performing the queries
  • 3.1 - Rendering of the word μονογενής
  • 3.2 - Using show
• 4 - Attribution and footnotes
• 5 - Required libraries

1 - Introduction ¶

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How to translate and understand μονογενής - whether it means "only begotten" or just "unique".

1.1 - Why is this relevant? ¶

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Consider for example John 3:16:

Οὕτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν κόσμον, ὥστε τὸν Υἱὸν τὸν μονογενῆ ἔδωκεν, ἵναπᾶς ὁπι στεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται ἀλλ’ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον.

Does this imply that Jesus was begotten of God. But the adjective μονογενής can just mean one-of-a-kind or unique. See also the entry in Liddel-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon.

1.2 - Translating into Text-Fabric queries ¶

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We need to search for all occurences of the lemma μονογενής.

2 - Load Text-Fabric app and data ¶

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3 - Performing the queries ¶

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3.1 - Rendering of the word μονογενής ¶

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The following script gathers all occurrences of the lemma "μονογενής" and displays its English rendering.

Alternative method to identify the verse location is to use T.sectionFromNode(node). The resultant tuple structure can be determined from the output of T.structureInfo(). See following image:

This is the same info as can be obtained from otext

This will result in the following snippet of code:

3.2 - Using show ¶

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4 - Attribution and footnotes¶

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N.A.

5 - Required libraries ¶

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The scripts in this notebook require (beside text-fabric) the following Python libraries to be installed in the environment:

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You can install any missing library from within Jupyter Notebook using eitherpip or pip3.