TA hAGIA
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Sat Jun 8 19:53:03 EDT 2002
At 21:22 08/06/02, David Thiele wrote:
>Why is TA hAGIA in the neuter. I know we
>cannot simply work backwards from the English
But that is precisely what you are doing by "reading in" <TOPOS>.
If you check BAGD under hAGIOS 2b you will find " hAGIA, TO " = sanctuary.
There are other examples in secular Greek of the singular use and the
plural having a different meaning:
XRHMA ( or CRHEMA depending on your transliteration scheme ) = thing
XRHMATA = money
I notice though that while Mk. 10:23 [ par. Lk. 18:24 ] uses XRHMATA, and
Ac.8:18,20; 24:26 also uses the plural to denote "riches"/"money", when
Barnabas sells his field what he lays at the feet of the apostles in Ac.
4:37 is TO XRHMA
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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