Mat 18:17 EKKLHSIA with def. article
Suedaleg at aol.com
Suedaleg at aol.com
Fri Jan 12 03:02:02 EST 2001
Sirs:
Michael Finney wrote of an "individualizing article" and a "generic article".
Could you explain the difference between these, and especially if there is a
syntactic difference, or is this distinction a philosophical way of looking
at the information in the sentance?
In his example (Matt 18:17) I can see how hO ETHNOS would be a generic type
as a nation is a group rather than a single person (even though the context
is comparing an individual to a member of the group). It also seems to me
that hO TELWNHS speaks of an example of a member of the group, rather than
speaking of a particular person, in English idiom ". . .let him be to you as
A Gentile and A tax collector."
because these are examples of a member of a group, I'm not sure the article
is either "generic" or "individualized", or maybe I am not understanding the
distinction. Thanks for your patience.
Dale Greenlee
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