[B-Greek] Absent Definite Article strips Personality from The Holy Spirit‏

Vasileios Tsialas tsialas78 at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 15 17:32:52 EDT 2009




BDAG gives
these meanings:

1.    
a movement of air (gentle) blast;

2.      
the spirit, i. e. the vital
principle by which the body is animated, breath, (life-)spirit

3.      
"a spirit, i. e. a simple
essence, devoid of all or at least all grosser matter, and possessed of the
power of knowing, desiring, deciding, and acting"; a. generically

4.      
The Scriptures also ascribe a pneu/ma
to God, i. e. God's
power and agency -- distinguishable in thought (or modalistice, as they say
in technical speech) from God's essence in itself considered  

5.      
universally, "the
disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of anyone; the
efficient source of any power, affection, emotion, desire,

I don’t see
how your position can be established. Only in the 3 “spirit” can mean a
person.

Actually, I may say that
the case of “spirit” has similarities to that of the “flesh” (SARX). “Flesh”
can mean a “human person”, but this is not the basic meaning of the word. This
is a metonymy based on the monistic biblical anthropology. Yes, as a metonymy the “spirit
person”, i.e. an angel, can be called a “spirit”.
Vasileios Tsialas,
Athens, Greece





> From: kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:02:13 -0700
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Absent Definite Article strips Personality from The Holy Spirit‏
> 
> 
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Vasileios Tsialas wrote:
> 
> > I forgot to
> > say that the most elementary thing is that the word “spirit” is  
> > neuter and
> > means “the thing blown, wind”
> 
> Are you suggesting that "wind" would be a useful semantic prototype  
> for PNEUMA in the GNT?
> 
> Take a look at BDAG under PNEUMA. The overwhelmingly predominate use  
> in the GNT is for a conscious agent of some sort. Not some inanimate  
> force.
> 
> Elizabeth Kline
> 
> 
> 
> 
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