[B-Greek] gender of pronouns

Gerald Barrett barrettgr at cybersurfers.net
Mon Apr 12 09:26:00 EDT 2004


This is my first time to respond on this site.  I want to thank all for
responding to the questions. This is one of the greatest and helpful sites
I've been on. I hope this is not a foolish question and off topic of Greek,
but it did come to me as I pondered your answer Mr. Conrad.  If the
implication is not biological gender what type of gender is it?  Are there
other types of gender besides that of the flesh that the antecedent would
indicate? I'm really new at Greek.
Thank you again.
Gerald Barrett
Church of Christ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
To: "Lew Osborne" <osbo at hn.ozemail.com.au>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] gender of pronouns


> At 5:05 PM +1000 4/12/04, Lew Osborne wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >In John 1:3 the pronoun 'him' was translated as 'it' until about 1568.
> >Taking all doctrinal thinking out of the equation and understanding that
the
> >word 'logos' is the 'essential thought' ; 'the concept of an idea' should
> >the word 'autos' be translated 'it'; 'he'; 'she' or whatever in this
> >context. What governs this?
>
> Quite simply put, the antecedent of AUTOU and AUTON in John 1:3 is hO
> LOGOS; the antecedent noun is masculine singular and therefore the gender
> of AUTOU and AUTON is masculine singular. The gender of LOGOS is masculine
> but that fact doesn't imply anything about biological gender.
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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