Jude 1:7 antecedent of TOUTOIS?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 28 13:51:29 EDT 2002
At 11:05 AM -0500 8/28/02, Rob's SoftHome wrote:
>hWS SODOMA KAI GOMORRA KAI hAI PERI AUTAS POLEIS TON hOMOION TOUTOIS TROPON
>EKPORNEUSASAI KAI APELQOUSAI OPISW SARKOS hETERAS PROKEINTAI DEIGMA PUROS
>AIWNIOU
>DIKHN hUPECOUSAI
>
>I hope this is not recovering over traveled ground. My question is what is the
>antecedent of TOUTOIS and why?
>
>1) Is it SODOMA KAI GOMORRA because SODOMA is neuter? However, the
>participles related
>to them, EKPORNEUSASAI KAI APELQOUSAI are feminine plural, I assume
>because GOMORRA is
>feminine and the closest antecedent.
>
>2) Is it AGGELOUS back in verse 6?
>
>I have always understood #2 as the best (only) option, but had this questioned
>recently on the basis that mixed gender antecedents require a neuter for
>agreement.
>This didn't seem right, but Greek grammar was a long time ago. Thanks for
>any help.
I think that the participles EKPORNEUSASAI and APELQOUSAI are feminine
because POLEIS is feminine; note that hUPECOUSAI is also feminine plural
and must construe with the subject of PROKEINTAI, which must be hAI PERI
AUTAS POLEIS.
My own take on the chief question you're raising here is that although
TOUTOIS could may very well refer all the way back (hOUTOS quite regularly
does refer to a PRIOR antecedent, while hODE refers more commonly to what
is to follow) to the AGGELOI of verse 6, it's worth considering also that
it is masculine plural referring to the PEOPLE of Sodom and Gomorrah. At
any rate, I really don't think it is neuter plural.
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Carl W. Conrad
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