Ephesians 6:17 - the sword of the Spirit

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Sun Oct 27 03:05:00 EST 2002


On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 02:02 AM, Iver Larsen wrote:

> Can anyone tell me whether the Greek fathers ever used hOS to refer 
> back to
> PNEUMA? I have a faint memory that this was mentioned before on the 
> list,
> but don't know what to search for. Or is it just that in English one 
> prefers
> to refer to the Holy Spirit with "who" rather than "which"?

Iver, in Ignatius's Epistle to the Magnesians 15.1 we have:

ERRWSQE EN OMONOIAi QEOU KEKTHMENOI ADIAKRITON PNEUMA, hOS ESTIN IHSOUS 
CRISTOS.

But we have the same dilemma: Is hOS attracted to the gender of IHSOUS 
CRISTOS? I, of course, would say yes.

Contrast this with 2 Clem 14.4:

hO TOIOUTOS OUN OU METALHYETAI TOU PNEUMATOS, hO ESTIN hO CRISTOS.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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