[B-Greek] Great Commision Matt 28:19

Andrew Rowell andrew at orego.com
Mon Jan 17 04:21:26 EST 2005


Jeffrey,

I understand that ETHN- is always neuter. My question is about the reason
for the masculine gender for the plural pronouns and what it means.
Grammatically/Linguistically does it mean that those individuals who have
been discipled should be baptised... or is Jesus setting us the puzzle of
how to baptise nations?

Every blessing





This may seem really simplistic, but I hope it answers your question. TWN
ETHNWN comes from ETHNH. I'm guessing you use Logos since I have the same
"Nestle Aland 27th Ed GNT with McReynolds Interlinear". If so, perform the
keylink on ETHNH and it should pull up the word. You can see from the
lexical entry from whatever lexicon it pulls up that it is ETHNOS, ETHNOUS,
TO. In other words, ETHNOS is naturally a neuter noun and would have no
other choice, so ETHNWN must be neuter. Good luck!

Jeffrey T. Requadt


Sorry if these questions are far too basic...
I am trying to work out why the pronouns for nations in Matt28:19 are
masculine but "nations" is neuter.
Can anyone explain?

I have  Nestle Aland 27th Ed GNT with McReynolds Interlinear on my computer
which parses the words and I noticed that in Mt 20:25 it gives a 3rd Person,
**masculine**, plural, genitive pronoun for the neuter "nations"  Why have
they given it masculine when I thought that the gender was not
distinguishable for genitive plural pronouns?

Every blessing,

Andrew Rowell




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