Mat 12:6 MEIZON
clayton stirling bartholomew
c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Sat Aug 15 14:56:27 EDT 1998
I've lost the original thread here but I found an illustration that may be
useful.
The original question was how can a neuter adjective have a referent which is
masculine. I argued that it need not agree in gender with it's ultimate
referent. This morning I stumbled across an example of this in a different
place, Acts 13:39 where APO PANTWN hWN . . . appears to have hAMARTIWN as a
referent.
One thing to keep in mind is that in both cases (Mat 12:6 and Acts 13:39) the
adjective is functioning as a substantive and is somewhat syntactically
independent of the (ultimate) referent. In both cases the adjective is used
to depict an abstraction "something greater ", "from all things" . The
semantic relationship between the abstraction and the ultimate referent is
indirect, so that the lack of concord in gender does not really cause a lot of
dissonance.
The statements above include a lot of speculation on my part. I assume that
speculation is allowed on this list.
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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