The Syntax of the Correlative οὕτως ... ὥστε in John 3.16 in the Light of Parallel Constructions in the Ancient Greek Corpus.

While it has recently become a common assumption that the traditional understanding of the grammar of John 3.16 ('For God so loved the world that ...') is misleading or simply inaccurate, this article demonstrates on the basis of parallel constructions from the ancient Greek corpus that οὕτως ... ὥστε, when used with ἀγαπάω, functions as a correlative intensifier–result pair, exactly as it is presented in the traditional understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]