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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