[B-Greek] PNEUMATON ESTIN?

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 23 04:24:40 EDT 2007


On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Fridolin Janzen wrote:

> Every occurence of PNEUMATON has its accompanying words in the plural;
> is there a reason for the verb in Revelation 1:4 to be in the singular
> (ESTIN)? If it is in the singular in Greek, why do most (or all)
> translations have the verb in the plural? Could we miss some  
> theological
> aspect by having it in the plural? It would sound awkward to have  
> it in
> the singular, but wouldn't it be more accurate to have the verb in the
> singular?

RE. 1:4 NA27-UBS4

IWANNHS TAIS hEPTA EKKLHSIAIS TAIS EN THi ASIAi: CARIS hUMIN KAI  
EIRHNH APO hO WN KAI hO HN KAI hO ERCOMENOS KAI APO TWN hEPTA  
PNEUMATWN hA ENWPION TOU QRONOU AUTOU

You must be working from the TR. Tischendorf's 8th shows one ms. 36  
which reads EISIN. ESTIN is relegated to the margin in Robinson- 
Pierpoint and is found in the apparatus in NA27.

Tischendorf's 8th Rev 1:4
http://rosetta.reltech.org/cgi-bin/Ebind2html/TC/TischendorfNTG8v2? 
seq=907

Neuter plurals are commonly coreferential with the subject of  
singular verbs.

Elizabeth Kline







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