[B-Greek] Rom 8:10 TO DE PNEUMA ZWH

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Sun Oct 19 21:20:25 EDT 2008


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From: "Nikolaos Adamou" <nikolaos.adamou at hotmail.com>
To: "Barry" <nebarry at verizon.net>; "Tom Moore" <tom at katabiblon.com>; 
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Rom 8:10 TO DE PNEUMA ZWH


> There is not Greek Word as ZWOS.
> There is a Greek Word ZWON but ζώον=annimal.

Of course there is, just check out LSJ.  You are making the mistake of 
letting modern, or at least later, Greek influence your understanding of 
ancient.  ζώον (ZWON) as a substantive may refer to animals, but the 
adjective certainly existed in ancient Greek.

> It is correct
> and there is an agreement
> ζωὴ διὰ δικαιοσύνην

If you mean that ZWH modifies DIKAIOSUNHN, that is incorrect.

> but the spirit is life because of righteousness
>
> πνεῦμα and ζωὴ are in a syntactical agreement, since both are in 
> nominative.

Right -- ζωὴ (ZWH) is a predicate nominative.  However, usually the term 
"agreement" is reserved for adjectives, pronouns, and participles.

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