[B-Greek] Heb 6:10 - KAI TOU KOPOU THS AGAPHN HN ENEDEIXASQE
Erich Vaughan Burton
zaxciel at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 11 02:44:54 EDT 2003
Heb 6:10 - KAI TOU KOPOU THS AGAPHN HN ENEDEIXASQE
I would like to know why the relative pronoun "HN" in this passage is feminine.
Since it is feminine it can only refer to "AGAPHN" and not "KOPOU" or "ERGOU"
which are masculine.
If I said this in english, "[thy] work of love which you have shown",
I would think it was the "WORK" that the relative pronoun was refering to.
This raises three questions:
1. Am I missing something?
2. Is it because the emphasis is upon the "LOVE" that was shown and not the "WORK"?
3. Does the Greek langauge allow for the distinction of relative pronouns in a way that
the English language does not? I'm not referring to the fact that the relative pronoun can
change in case, gender, number, but in the above passage the pronoun seems to be relative to
adjective of the noun rather than the noun itself.
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