[B-Greek] pronoun for Pneuma
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 19 08:05:13 EDT 2006
KAI OU KRATWN THN KEFALHN, EC hOU PAN TO SWMA DIA TWN AFWN KAI . . .
No. KEFALHN if fem and therefore already is "personalized." That the masc would be used rather than the fem is, however, interesting.
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Dan Parker <stoixein at yahoo.com> wrote:
I do not know if constructio ad sensum has been
discussed on the list in detail. I uncovered only a
few posts in the archives.
Dan Wallace lists Colossians 2:19 --
êáé ïõv
êñáôùí
ôçí
êåöáëçí
åî ïõ -- KAI OUN KRATWN THN
KEFALHN EZ OU -- in his article "Greek Grammar and the
Personality of the Holy Spirit" published in BBR 13.1,
2003. He believes this is quite common and gives
the following list in a footnote. (Cf., e.g., Matt.
25:32; Mk. 3:8; 5:41; Lk. 2:13; 10:13; 19:37; Jn.
1:12; 6:9; 17:2, 24; Acts 5:16; 8:5, 10; 9:15; 13:48;
14:4; 15:17; 25:24; 26:17; Rom. 2:14, 26; 4:9ff, 23f;
Gal. 1:22f; 4:19; Eph. 2:11; 4:17f; Phil. 3:7; Col.
2:15; Phlm. 1:10; 1 Pet. 2:19; 2 Pet. 2:17; 2 Jn. 1:1;
Jude 1:7, 12. For number shifts, cf. Matt 21:8; Mark
3:32; 5:24; Luke 5:29; 6:19; 8:40; John 6:2, 37; 7:49;
12:18; 17:2; Acts 6:7. Omitted from this list are the
numerous examples in Revelation because it is hardly
representative of the literary level and style of
Greek found in the rest of the N.T)
Would it be safe to say that in Colossian 2:19 the
masculine personal pronoun is used of "head" to
explicitly grammaticize personality?
Dan Parker
george
gfsomsel
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