[B-Greek] Neuter Pronoun 1 John 2:8

CHARLES CLAYTON CHARLES.CLAYTON at kos.kiewit.com
Wed Oct 26 09:21:58 EDT 2005


In 1 John 2:8 the author writes hO ESTIN ALHQES EN AUTW KAI EN hUMIN hOTI hH SKOTIA PARAGETAI KAI TO FWS TO ALHQINON HDH QAINEI.  To what does the hO refer?  One author had the unique approach (at least to me) of saying that hO was a postcedent and it related to all the phrase following hOTI because hOTI is considered to take a neuter nominative article. Most everyone else said that it related to the precedent clause (PALIN ENTOLHN KAINHN GRAFW hUMIN).  But the difficult part for me was that some said it could not relate to ENTOLHN because it was feminine and others said even though it was feminine it still related to it because sometimes the neuter would do this.

Any edifying thoughts for me?

Charles D Clayton Jr
South Texas



More information about the B-Greek mailing list