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The Granville Sharp rule (Nestle1904LFT)¶

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Table of content ¶

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 - TBD
- 3.2 - TBD
4 - Discussion
5 - Atribution and footnotes
6 - Required libraries

1 - Introduction ¶

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The Granville Sharp rule is formulated as:

"When the copulative καὶ connects two nouns of the same case,(...) if the article ὁ, or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle ..."¹

1.1 - Why is this relevant? ¶

This rule is often refered to in order to prove the deity of Christ using textual and grammatical means (just as done by Granville Sharp). It is often applied to verses like Titus 2:13:²

προσδεχόμενοι τὴν μακαρίαν ἐλπίδα καὶ ἐπιφάνειαν τῆς δόξης τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,

1.2 - Translating it into a Text-Fabric query ¶

The following Text-Fabric query will identify a list of instances where the conditions referred to by the Granville Sharp rule are met. The results would assist in determining the exceptions and limitations of this rule.

This Text-Fabric query will produce:

Find all sequences of two substantive nouns in the same case.
Check if they share the same definite article.

It will return only instances where:

The two nouns are singular
The article is arthrous (occurs with the nouns)
The two nouns do not stand in a possessive relationship (one does not modify the other)
They do not constitute a proper name or geographical term (this can be done using Lauw-Nida classifications)
They are not separated by a modifier that would prevent them from referring to the same thing

2 - Load app and data ¶

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In [2]:

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

In [1]:

# Loading the Text-Fabric code
# Note: it is assumed Text-Fabric is installed in your environment
from tf.fabric import Fabric
from tf.app import use

In [2]:

# load the N1904 app and data
N1904 = use ("tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT", version="0.6", hoist=globals())

Locating corpus resources ...

The requested app is not available offline
	~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/app not found

Status: latest release online v0.6 versus None locally

downloading app, main data and requested additions ...

app: ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/app

The requested data is not available offline
	~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6 not found

Status: latest release online v0.6 versus None locally

downloading app, main data and requested additions ...

data: ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6

   |     0.21s T otype                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     2.34s T oslots               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.45s T verse                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.57s T book                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.59s T word                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.60s T unicode              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.59s T wordunacc            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.60s T wordtranslit         from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.50s T after                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.48s T chapter              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.60s T normalized           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |      |     0.06s C __levels__           from otype, oslots, otext
   |      |     1.80s C __order__            from otype, oslots, __levels__
   |      |     0.07s C __rank__             from otype, __order__
   |      |     3.35s C __levUp__            from otype, oslots, __rank__
   |      |     1.92s C __levDown__          from otype, __levUp__, __rank__
   |      |     0.22s C __characters__       from otext
   |      |     0.92s C __boundary__         from otype, oslots, __rank__
   |      |     0.04s C __sections__         from otype, oslots, otext, __levUp__, __levels__, book, chapter, verse
   |      |     0.23s C __structure__        from otype, oslots, otext, __rank__, __levUp__, book, chapter, verse
   |     0.45s T booknumber           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.52s T bookshort            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.49s T case                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.33s T clausetype           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.56s T containedclause      from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.41s T degree               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.57s T gloss                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.46s T gn                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.03s T headverse            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.32s T junction             from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.55s T lemma                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.51s T lex_dom              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.53s T ln                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.41s T markafter            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.41s T markbefore           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.41s T markorder            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.45s T monad                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.43s T mood                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.54s T morph                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.53s T nodeID               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.49s T nu                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.49s T number               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.44s T person               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.43s T punctuation          from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.64s T ref                  from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.64s T reference            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.50s T roleclausedistance   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.48s T sentence             from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.52s T sp                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.51s T sp_full              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.54s T strongs              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.45s T subj_ref             from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.45s T tense                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.46s T type                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.46s T voice                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.40s T wgclass              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.35s T wglevel              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.38s T wgnum                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.35s T wgrole               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.35s T wgrolelong           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.40s T wgrule               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.33s T wgtype               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.49s T wordlevel            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.49s T wordrole             from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6
   |     0.51s T wordrolelong         from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/tf/0.6

TF: TF API 12.1.5, tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/app v3, Search Reference
Data: tonyjurg - Nestle1904LFT 0.6, Character table, Feature docs

Node types

Name	# of nodes	# slots / node	% coverage
book	27	5102.93	100
chapter	260	529.92	100
verse	7943	17.35	100
sentence	8011	17.20	100
wg	105430	6.85	524
word	137779	1.00	100

Sets: no custom sets
Features:

Nestle 1904 (Low Fat Tree)

after

str

✅ Characters (eg. punctuations) following the word

book

str

✅ Book name (in English language)

booknumber

int

✅ NT book number (Matthew=1, Mark=2, ..., Revelation=27)

bookshort

str

✅ Book name (abbreviated)

case

str

✅ Gramatical case (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative)

chapter

int

✅ Chapter number inside book

clausetype

str

✅ Clause type details (e.g. Verbless, Minor)

containedclause

str

🆗 Contained clause (WG number)

degree

str

✅ Degree (e.g. Comparitative, Superlative)

gloss

str

✅ English gloss

str

✅ Gramatical gender (Masculine, Feminine, Neuter)

headverse

str

✅ Start verse number of a sentence

junction

str

✅ Junction data related to a wordgroup

lemma

str

✅ Lexeme (lemma)

lex_dom

str

✅ Lexical domain according to Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Greek, SDBG (not present everywhere?)

str

✅ Lauw-Nida lexical classification (not present everywhere?)

markafter

str

🆗 Text critical marker after word

markbefore

str

🆗 Text critical marker before word

markorder

str

Order of punctuation and text critical marker

monad

int

✅ Monad (smallest token matching word order in the corpus)

mood

str

✅ Gramatical mood of the verb (passive, etc)

morph

str

✅ Morphological tag (Sandborg-Petersen morphology)

nodeID

str

✅ Node ID (as in the XML source data)

normalized

str

✅ Surface word with accents normalized and trailing punctuations removed

str

✅ Gramatical number (Singular, Plural)

number

str

✅ Gramatical number of the verb (e.g. singular, plural)

otype

str

person

str

✅ Gramatical person of the verb (first, second, third)

punctuation

str

✅ Punctuation after word

ref

str

✅ Value of the ref ID (taken from XML sourcedata)

reference

str

✅ Reference (to nodeID in XML source data, not yet post-processes)

roleclausedistance

str

⚠️ Distance to the wordgroup defining the syntactical role of this word

sentence

int

✅ Sentence number (counted per chapter)

str

✅ Part of Speech (abbreviated)

sp_full

str

✅ Part of Speech (long description)

strongs

str

✅ Strongs number

subj_ref

str

🆗 Subject reference (to nodeID in XML source data, not yet post-processes)

tense

str

✅ Gramatical tense of the verb (e.g. Present, Aorist)

type

str

✅ Gramatical type of noun or pronoun (e.g. Common, Personal)

unicode

str

✅ Word as it apears in the text in Unicode (incl. punctuations)

verse

int

✅ Verse number inside chapter

voice

str

✅ Gramatical voice of the verb (e.g. active,passive)

wgclass

str

✅ Class of the wordgroup (e.g. cl, np, vp)

wglevel

int

🆗 Number of the parent wordgroups for a wordgroup

wgnum

int

✅ Wordgroup number (counted per book)

wgrole

str

✅ Syntactical role of the wordgroup (abbreviated)

wgrolelong

str

✅ Syntactical role of the wordgroup (full)

wgrule

str

✅ Wordgroup rule information (e.g. Np-Appos, ClCl2, PrepNp)

wgtype

str

✅ Wordgroup type details (e.g. group, apposition)

word

str

✅ Word as it appears in the text (excl. punctuations)

wordlevel

str

🆗 Number of the parent wordgroups for a word

wordrole

str

✅ Syntactical role of the word (abbreviated)

wordrolelong

str

✅ Syntactical role of the word (full)

wordtranslit

str

🆗 Transliteration of the text (in latin letters, excl. punctuations)

wordunacc

str

✅ Word without accents (excl. punctuations)

oslots

none

Settings:

specified

apiVersion: 3
appName: tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT
appPath:
C:/Users/tonyj/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/app
commit: no value
css: ''
dataDisplay:
- excludedFeatures:
  - orig_order
  - verse
  - book
  - chapter
- noneValues:
  - none
  - unknown
  - no value
  - NA
  - ''
- showVerseInTuple: 0
- textFormat: text-orig-full
docs:
- docBase: https://github.com/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/blob/main/docs/
- docPage: about
- docRoot: https://github.com/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT
- featureBase:
  https://github.com/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/blob/main/docs/features/<feature>.md
interfaceDefaults: {fmt: layout-orig-full}
isCompatible: True
local: no value
localDir:
C:/Users/tonyj/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904LFT/_temp
provenanceSpec:
- corpus: Nestle 1904 (Low Fat Tree)
- doi: notyet
- org: tonyjurg
- relative: /tf
- repo: Nestle1904LFT
- repro: Nestle1904LFT
- version: 0.6
- webBase: https://learner.bible/text/show_text/nestle1904/
- webHint: Show this on the Bible Online Learner website
- webLang: en
- webUrl:
  https://learner.bible/text/show_text/nestle1904/<1>/<2>/<3>
- webUrlLex: {webBase}/word?version={version}&id=<lid>
release: no value
typeDisplay:
- book:
  - condense: True
  - hidden: True
  - label: {book}
  - style: ''
- chapter:
  - condense: True
  - hidden: True
  - label: {chapter}
  - style: ''
- sentence:
  - hidden: 0
  - label: #{sentence} (start: {book} {chapter}:{headverse})
  - style: ''
- verse:
  - condense: True
  - excludedFeatures: chapter verse
  - label: {book} {chapter}:{verse}
  - style: ''
- wg:
  - hidden: 0
  - label:
    #{wgnum}: {wgtype} {wgclass} {clausetype} {wgrole} {wgrule} {junction}
  - style: ''
- word:
  - base: True
  - features: lemma
  - featuresBare: gloss
  - surpress: chapter verse
writing: grc

TF API: names N F E L T S C TF Fs Fall Es Eall Cs Call directly usable

In [3]:

# The following will push the Text-Fabric stylesheet to this notebook (to facilitate proper display with notebook viewer)
N1904.dh(N1904.getCss())

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# Set default view in a way to limit noise as much as possible.
N1904.displaySetup(condensed=True, multiFeatures=False,queryFeatures=False)

3 - Performing the queries ¶

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3.1 - TBD ¶

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3.2 - TBD ¶

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4 - Discussion ¶

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TBA

5 - Attribution and footnotes ¶

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Footnotes:¶

¹ Sharp, Granville (1798). Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament, Containing Many New Proofs of the Divinity of Christ, from Passages Which Are Wrongly Translated in the Common English Version, Third Edition. (London: C. & W. Galabin, 1803), 3.

² For example in: Benjamin L. Merkle. Exegetical gems from Biblical Greek (Grand Rappids, MI: Baker Accademics, 2019), 39-43.

See also the extensive discussion on this subject in: Daniel B. Wallace, The Basics of New Testament Syntax, AER Edition January 2009 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 120-128.

6 - 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.

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The Granville Sharp rule (Nestle1904LFT)¶

Table of content ¶

1 - Introduction ¶

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1.1 - Why is this relevant? ¶

1.2 - Translating it into a Text-Fabric query ¶

2 - Load app and data ¶

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3 - Performing the queries ¶

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3.1 - TBD¶

3.2 - TBD¶

4 - Discussion¶

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5 - Attribution and footnotes¶

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Footnotes:¶

6 - Required libraries ¶

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3.1 - TBD ¶

3.2 - TBD ¶

4 - Discussion ¶

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5 - Attribution and footnotes ¶

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