TA hAGIA

David Thiele thielogian at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 8 16:22:05 EDT 2002


Seeing there has been a little discussion on these
words in Heb 9:8 I thought I would take the
opportunity to ask something that has puzzled me for a
while: Why is TA hAGIA in the neuter.  I know we
cannot simply work backwards from the English but if
one did translate the English phrase "the holy place"
into a Greek plural form, surely it would be hOI
hAGIOI TOPOI.

The way I have always conceptualized the use of
adjectives used as substantives is by regarding them
as a shorthand form of an understood nounal phrase. 
Thus "the poor" is shorthand for "the poor people" or
something similar.  If this is the case, what is the
original noun to be understood with TA hAGIA.  

I suspect it's my conceptualization of the issue which
is causing me problems, but I welcome clarification.

Regards

David
David Thiele
Pacific Adventist University
Papua New Guinea

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