[B-Greek] This is my body (Luk 22:19)

The Rev. Dr. Ian E. Rock ianerock at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 17 13:37:10 EST 2007


Dear list:

I posted this on another biblical group, but none of the answers dealt with the issue from the perspective of the language that I was looking for.  I unsuccessfully tried searching your archives.  

According to the Greek grammars, the demonstrative adjective and prounoun agree with their antecedent in number and gender.  In the words so-called words of institution (Luke 22:19) the demonstrative pronoun 'this' (touto) agrees in this manner with the neuter noun soma (body) and not the masculine noun artos (bread). Could we conclude that the body (soma) that the demonstrative pronoun is pointing to is not the bread (artos) [since it would have been 'outos'] but to some other entity.  Could the body (soma) be pointing to the people gathered?

Regards

The Rev'd Dr. Ian E. Rock 
Codrington College
St. John, BB20062
Barbados, West Indies 
Tel: (246) 423-1140; (246) 423-1147
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