[B-Greek] The personal pronoun for he, she and it

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Feb 2 19:14:59 EST 2007


On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Dr. Don Wilkins wrote:

> IMO AUTOS is not really satisfactory as an ordinary 3rd person
> pronoun in the NT, either. It is intensive there as well, though the
> intensity is not always sufficient to affect the translation (a
> subjective choice by the translator), which might lead one to assume
> that AUTOS serves as an ordinary pronoun.

You're surely not trying to say, are you, Don, that AUTOS functions  
ONLY as an intensive pronoun in the Koine of the GNT? Certainly it's  
intensive in many instances and it's used with the article in the  
sense "the same" several times; but you wouldn't be denying that it's  
sometimes used as a third person pronoun in the nominative, would you?

For my part, I think we do well to be cognizant of the fact that the  
Koine of the GNT represents a language in flux. Usages and  
constructions and morphological patterns from older and later eras co- 
exist within it -- as is made abundantly clear in Caragounis' recent  
volume, which I'm finally enjoying reading, now that it's in the  
Baker paperback edition.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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