The Meaning of Man or of a Man

The word anthropo, which is the genitive form of the noun anthropos, meaning man or human. Because it's the geniative form, because of the way the greek works, it can be translated either of man or of a man. And the thing that that you want to look to to answer that is the context. So when anthropus shows up in revelation 21 17, john has been measuring the heavenly city, and he's using the measure anthropo, the measure of man, or human measurement. It wouldn't make sense to say, i've been measuring the city with a big rod, that is according to the measure of a man, meaning some specific guy