[B-Greek] AUTOU in Romans 8:9
Carlton Winbery
winberycl at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 7 19:20:02 EST 2006
>Ron Fay wrote Romans 8:9 ends with the phrase hOUTOS OUK ESTIN AUTOU.
>The natural grammatical antecedant seems to be XRISTOU from earlier in the
>verse, yet the sense of Paul's argument makes me want to connect AUTOU to
>QEOU (I am disregarding PNEUMA, though it is a grammatical possibility).
>
>What do you think? Do I have a leg to stand on in connecting AUTOU to QEOU?
>
>- Ron Fay
It is better to have the text in full.
Rom 8:9 hUMEIS DE OUK ESTE EN SARKI ALLA EN PNEUMATI, EIPER PNEUMA
QEOU OIKEI EN hUMIN. EI DE TIS PNEUMA CRISTOU OUK ECEI hOUTOS OUK
ESTIN AUTOU.
Your position seems to me to be an unnecessary stretch. It seems more
natural in Greek for me to have the antecedent of the pronoun the
closest possible noun to the pronoun. Grammatically I suppose that
QEOU can be the antecedent but it reads more natural (in Greek) if
CRISTOU is the antecedent.
Peace,
Carlton Winbery
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Carlton L. Winbery
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