Two subjects is my position, not one.
Let us keep it simple.
Do you see one subject in the authoritative AV?
Titus 2:13 (AV)
Looking for that blessed hope,
and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Sorry, somehow I had our positions flipped. I apologize. Yes, I do see the AV text as having one subject--Christ is called "great God."
1. Because that same construction is used also of the Father--"God and the Father," "of God, and of the Father," "God and our Father," and all are "Sharp" constructions. It's an early modern English translation, and not all the constructions precisely match how we would you them. You tried appealing to the Geneva Bible also, which turns out to have a footnote at Titus 2:13 that, "Christ is here most plainly called that mightie God, and his appearance and comming is called by the figure Metonymie, our hope." So as with Romans 9:5, your knowledge of that period English is not good and you tend to try and read it through a completely modern lens.
2. As we've been through, Beza, Glassius, a number of English commentators before Sharp note the usage of the article as indicating one subject, so it was not introduced by Sharp but did highlight the neglect. The remarks on the usage of the article are even found in the annotations of the Greek text used by the KJV translators.
3. All the Greek fathers see one subject here, rather than two.
4. Finally, I've searched through about 90 English authors from the 1600s to the end of the 18th century, and those who read the KJV text had no trouble distinguishing one subject in view.
I'm not interested in rehashing this here, since you are more interested in confirming your views than you are in examining them.
I missed this earlier. Sorry.
I don't know of any example that meets all those requirements, but Jeremiah 5:7 might be worth a look.
No problem! There's a
lot of dialogue in here and I can't keep up with it all. Thank you for the example; it's a good example of a generic usage but what I would expect to see. I'm actually hoping for a particular usage of the article (i.e., of a specific individual), especially one that could also be interpreted as being in the second attributive position for a preceding noun.