TIS and grammatical gender (Was Re: [B-Greek] 1 Timothy 5:8
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Fri Jan 16 11:27:18 EST 2004
dhoxworth at charter.net wrote:
> ><Ann>
> >...that the grammatical gender can be at odds with biological gender
>
> <doug>
> i'm not saying this to contradict what you said in any way but i just wanted to make the point that from what i've noticed, very often the grammatical gender DOES agree with the biological gender. but the argument that this is a hard and fast "rule" is what needs to be (and is being) challenged. if this doesn't hold in all cases, then the argument that grudem et al are making doesn't hold much water.
Have a look at PARQENOS and TEKNON and PAIDION and TELOS, not to mention QALASSA and EKKLHSIA and ALHQEIA.
Jeffrey
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