[B-Greek] John--14-15-16

Diana L Hayes dihayes at juno.com
Wed May 25 13:13:27 EDT 2005


Dear the lists,
   I was wondering if you could help me out on a little dilemma that has
arisen through studying the Greek text about the Holy Spirit.  Coming
upon these statements about the Holy Spirit, it surly has been surprising
that I did not find the masculine pronoun really anywhere to describe
exactly that the Holy Spirit is a He or as we can say, a
person---although surely not to say that He is not, because we know that
the He does have all the characteristics of a person, found from other
passages in the New Testament-- and even in these.  

All that I find is the quite ambiguous --EI ending of the verbs that can
mean it or He, (or she).  Also there is the demonstrative pronouns here
that keep the Spirit's identity quite generic.  It seems as though the
Spirit is address in the 3rd person most of the time when Jesus talks of
Him, and well, he would have to be!  It just is making it a little hard.

I have heard, and believe made myself the argument that the Spirit must
be a person, because in these passages and others in the English
translation the word He is used for the Holy Spirit---As if this pronoun
were there and concrete.  That is very well if it can be deduced, or if
not that is well, but I was wondering if I could know the truth on the
matter and how the Greek is reading here. Perhaps, and probably some have
had this same little dilemma.  

Thank you and will be looking forward to your response. 

Sincerely,
Diana Hayes
dihayes at juno.com 



More information about the B-Greek mailing list