Fw: Holy Spirit and indications of grammar

Tolliver Family tolliver at tstar.net
Sun Sep 20 16:48:24 EDT 1998


The difficulty seems to arise from the fact that people come in two sexes,
but words in Greek come in three genders.  It may be helpful to look at
other languages that have grammatical gender.  German has a large number of
neuter nouns referring to people and I have seen all three genders of
pronouns used with them.   It seems that if the person is definitely known
to be of one sex or the other, that sex-appropriate pronoun  may be used,
however the neuter pronoun can be used also with no loss of personhood.
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> From: Will Wagers <hyle at gte.net>
> To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Holy Spirit and indications of grammar
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 2:40 PM
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> What is meant by "personhood" and "personality" in these discussions?
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> Will Wagers	hyle at gte.net	"Reality is the best metaphor."
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