[B-Greek] Creed of Nicaea change in gender
John Wilking
jcwilking at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 13 21:11:14 EDT 2008
I was looking at it as something of a repetition of THS OUSIAS as well as a reference to KURION. As such I thought the noun aspect of the adjective might maintain its gender. I guess its just something I hadn't thought of before.
John C. Wilking
--- On Sun, 7/13/08, James Ernest <j.d.ernest at bc.edu> wrote:
> From: James Ernest <j.d.ernest at bc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Creed of Nicaea change in gender
> To: jcwilking at yahoo.com, "B-GREEK list" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 5:26 PM
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:42 PM, John Wilking
> <jcwilking at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone shed light on why there is a change in
> gender in the creed,
> > OUSIAS/hOMOOUSION?
> >
> > EK THS OUSIAS TOU PATROS...hOMOOUSION TWi PATRI
> >
>
>
> Sure-- OUSIA is a feminine noun. hOMOOUSIOS is an
> adjective, here
> masculine accusative singular to agree with the foregoing
> KURION
> (PISTEUOMEN . . . EIS hENA KURION IHSOUN CRISTON).
>
> These phrases are from the creed of Nicaea; the phrase EK
> THS OUSIAS
> TOU PATROS doesn't occur in the later canonical form of
> the creed.
>
> James Ernest
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