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A própria Kingdom Interlinear da Sociedade Torre de Vigia imprime, sob o grego de João 1:1, as glosas palavra por palavra “and” “god” “was” “the” “Word” — sem nenhum artigo indefinido em toda a linha —, enquanto a coluna da Tradução do Novo Mundo, ao lado, diz “and the Word was a god” (“e a Palavra era um deus”).

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A própria Kingdom Interlinear da Sociedade Torre de Vigia imprime, sob o grego de João 1:1, as glosas palavra por palavra “and” “god” “was” “the” “Word” — sem nenhum artigo indefinido em toda a linha —, enquanto a coluna da Tradução do Novo Mundo, ao lado, diz “and the Word was a god” (“e a Palavra era um deus”). Source: The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, 1985Source: The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, 1985

A posição da organização ou explicação posterior: O Apêndice 2A da organização declara que “com igual justificação, o artigo indefinido ‘a’ é inserido antes do θεός anartro no predicado de João 1:1”, e que o inglês exige um artigo onde o grego não exige.

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The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, “John 1:1 (word-for-word English under the Greek)”

1985 · John 1:1 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Ἐν In ἀρχῇ beginning ἦν was ὁ the λόγος, Word, καὶ and ὁ the λόγος Word ἦν was πρὸς toward τὸν the θεόν, God, καὶ and θεὸς god ἦν was ὁ the λόγος. Word.”

The Watch Tower Society's own interlinear sets its word-for-word English beneath the Westcott and Hort Greek text. Its literal line for the third clause reads 'and god was the Word'; the New World Translation column beside it reads 'and the Word was a god'.

Nota de procedência e verificação for The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, John 1:1 (word-for-word English under the Greek)

Nota de confiança. Interlinear text opened on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026 and the Greek and the English gloss read directly from the page.

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Notes. The Kingdom Interlinear is itself a Watch Tower publication, so this is primary evidence of what the organisation's own scholars took the Greek to say word for word.

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The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, “Appendix 2A: Jesus—A Godlike One; Divine”

1985 · pp.1139-1140 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“The articular construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous predicate noun preceding the verb points to a quality about someone. Therefore, John’s statement that the Word, or Logos, was “a god” or “divine” or “godlike” does not mean that he was the God with whom he was.”

The organisation's fullest published defence of 'a god'. The appendix also lists seven other translations that render the clause 'a god', 'divine' or 'godlike', quotes Philip B. Harner's 1973 Journal of Biblical Literature article, and gives a chart of anarthrous predicate nouns in Mark and John (apparition, prophet, thief, king and so on) where translators supply 'a'.

Nota de procedência e verificação for The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, Appendix 2A: Jesus—A Godlike One; Divine

Nota de confiança. Appendix opened in full on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; page markers 1139 and 1140 read from the HTML page-number spans.

Notes. The appendix quotes Harner: 'In John 1:1 I think that the qualitative force of the predicate is so prominent that the noun cannot be regarded as definite.' It does not quote any rendering Harner himself proposed.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-nwtv-int-app2a

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