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

nebarry at verizon.net nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Oct 21 08:58:44 EDT 2008



Original Message:
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From: Tom Moore tom at katabiblon.com
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:04:16 +0000
To: nebarry at verizon.net, nikolaos.adamou at hotmail.com,
b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Rom 8:10 TO DE PNEUMA ZWH


>>I think what was meant is that there are no occurrences of the adjective
ζωός -ή -όν (alive) in the GNT, whereas the list provided are all
occurrences of the noun ζῷον, -οÏ
, τό (animal/creature).<<

Ok, though once again he didn't say that, but only referenced ζῷον
(ZWON).

>>So digging further for "alive" in both the GNT and LXX, it appears that
in Koine "alive" is handled by the participle "living" (ZAW). Examples
below.

Earlier I proffered TO PNEUMA ZWON as the correct way to say "the spirit is
alive"; I think now instead that the way for Paul to have said it, had that
been what he intended, is TO PNEUMA ZWN.

Modern Greek appears to have the adjective ZWNTANOS to mean "alive",
presumably a derivation of the participle of zaw.<<

Quite possibly, and this does appear to be the idiomatic way of expressing
it in the biblical literature -- 2 Cor 3:3 certainly comes to mind, "the
spirit of the living God..."  While "living" modifies "God," the conceptual
association is there.

Barry
http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog



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