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

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Wed May 25 17:07:19 EDT 2005


On Wed 25 May 2005 (12:13:27), dihayes at juno.com wrote:
> 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.

 Grammatical gender is not the same as sexual gender. In German, for example,
 a "girl" is "das Maedchen", of neuter gender. But German speakers use the
 feminine pronoun "sie" when referring to a [neuter] "Maedchen", not the
 neuter pronoun "es". The same applies to "diminutives of endearment" which
 are grammatically neuter, although the reference is to a male or a female
 person. The neuter diminutive of endearment does not imply that the person
 referred to is a non-person, or an inanimate object.

 ERRWSQE
 Ben
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