[B-Greek] Absent Definite Article strips Personality from The Holy Spirit
Vasileios Tsialas
tsialas78 at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 15 15:54:59 EDT 2009
The
argument of Insight doesn't say that merely the often absence
of the article for
"spirit" proves the lack of its personality
but that it indicates that. Why? In
contrast with words like "God,"
"earth," and "heaven,", which were mentioned before,
the word "spirit" has
multiple applications and meanings,
and the often lack of the article makes the "spirit"
more abstract.
This is what Insight says. The word "God," on the contrary,
is
rarely used to denote anyone else but the Father of Jesus Christ,
the Creator
of the universe. Syntactically, many times it stands like a proper name.
This
is not the case with "spirit".
Anyway, the
whole case is not strictly grammatical but mostly exegetical.
Grammar plays only a
secondary role in this subject.
> From: kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:35:40 -0700
> Subject: [B-Greek] Absent Definite Article strips Personality from The Holy Spirit
>
> A brief review of the presence/absence of the article with QEOS in
> comparison to PNEUMA in the GNT doesn't reveal any substantial
> differences. QEOS as PNEUMA has referential ambiguity in the GNT.
> QEOS is used frequently without the article. Any argument about PNEUMA
> without the article might also be applied to QEOS. G.Cooper[1]
> 1.50.3.4 p.397 states "(hO) QEOS God and (hO) ANQROPOS are conceptions
> both personal and generic. Therefore with them a conflict is set up
> between the usage natural for proper nouns, i.e. omission of the
> article, and that natural for generically conceived individuals, i.e.
> use of the article. As a result the article is used, or omitted,
> usually though not always without any distinction."
>
> The way I read Cooper, any attempt to tie the article with QEOS to
> notions like personal/impersonal fails before it gets started.
>
> Elizabeth Kline
>
> [1] G.Cooper (Greek Syntax, four volumes) devotes 200 pages (v.1 & v.
> 3) to discussion and illustration of the greek article.
>
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