[B-Greek] noun-pronoun agreement John 16:13

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Feb 14 09:59:18 EST 2006


At 07:53 AM 2/14/2006 -0700, Pastor Shawn Ragan wrote:
>hOTAN DE ELQH EKEINOS, TO PNEUMA THS ALHQEIAS...
>
>TO PNEUMA is neuter and EKEINOS is masculine...right?
>
>I always understood that your noun and pronoun had to agree (case, number, gender), but if EKEINOS is for PNEUMA then they would not seem to match.  I was curious about this.
>
>I am not interested in the theological aspect of it, necessarily.  I am wanting to understand the Greek aspect of it.  Is there an exception that makes the rule or am I missing something simple?  Any help would be appreciated.

I think that the following TO PNEUMA THS ALHQEIAS is *not*
the antecedent of EKEINOS but in apposition to it.  Rather,
I think EKEINOS refers back to the masculine hO PARAKLHTOS
in John 16:7 (also EKEINOS in v. 8), which would account
for the noun-pronoun agreement we see in the text.

Stephen Carlson 
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