ἵνα, “in order that,”1 is used in the NT alongside ὅπως and εἰς with the infinitive, often after εἰς τοῦτο, διὰ τοῦτο.; sometimes with the indicative, as in Gl. 2:4; 4:17. The final significance is not always too strict. In John ἵνα often introduces an explicative subsidiary clause after a preceding demonstrative (οὗτος etc.). This is in keeping with the generally explicative mode of thinking in the Johannine writings.2 In the koine ἵνα can take on consecutive and even causal significance.3