[B-Greek] Novice question on Mark 9:29 - What "kind" comes out byprayer - unbelief or a demon

Rod Rogers rngrogers at embarqmail.com
Wed Aug 19 12:24:27 EDT 2009


I didn't see where anyone actually answered
Kenneth's question on Mark 9:29, "What "kind"
comes out by prayer - unbelief or a demon?"
Harold was right in that the demon is what is
the antecedent but Kenneth said up front that
this is a novice question, so I think we need
to tell "him" (Kenneth, the antecedent of the
pronoun "him") why the demon is being
referred to.

Kenneth, a pronoun agrees with its antecedent
in gender and number. That is why TOUTO TO
GENOS (Neuter) refers back to PNEUMA (Neuter)
and not unbelief APISTIA (Feminine).

rod rogers
bargersville, in




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----- Original Message -----
From: K Bent
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:16 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Novice question on Mark
9:29 - What "kind" comes out byprayer -
unbelief or a demon


Mark 9:29 -

29 καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· τοῦτο τὸ γένος ἐν οὐδενὶ
δύναται ἐξελθεῖν εἰ μὴ ἐν προσευχῇ.

29 KAI EIPEN AUTOIS TOUTO TO GENOS EN OUDENI
DUNATAI EXELTHEIN EI ME EN PROSEUCHE

I am hoping that someone might give me some
guidance as to the use of γένος (genos) in
this passage.  Is there any way of knowing
grammatically whether or not it is referring
to unbelief or to a demon, or is it ambiguous
grammatically and thus a matter of
interpretation?

Thanks for any and all help!

Kenneth Bent
ken at cotr.com


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