[B-Greek] Translating Mark 1:8

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Wed Nov 2 14:03:40 EST 2005



Dan Gleason wrote:
> 
> DG: another question re holy spirit:
> The term Holy Spirit is being anartharously introduced for the first time.
> Something like a character in a play who is making his first appearance.
> The audience who are "in the know" know it refers to God ... but for the 
> pagans in the audience ...
> Is it possible that an indefinite translation was intended until the 
> character was more fully developed in subsequent verses?

Perhaps- but that would be very very difficult to know for sure.

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