[B-Greek] hO KURIOS TO PNEUMA - subject or predicate?
Stephen Carlson
stemmatic at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 01:22:41 EST 2010
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hO DE KURIOS TO PNEUMA ESTIN· OU DE TO PNEUMA KURIOU, ELEUQERIA
> II Cor. 3:17
>
> Another question about the II Cor. 3 passage ... Is there any way to know with certainty
>if hO KURIOS is the subject and TO PNEUMA is the predicate, or if TO PNEUMA is the
>subject and hO KURIOS the predicate? I believe Chrysostom held to the later.
I'm not sure "certainty" is the proper goal for exegesis, but, as a
general matter, the subject refers to the old information and the
predicate to new information (old and new with respect to the
context). Since the Lord was just mentioned in the previous sentence
and the Spirit was not (but is so later on), I would expect hO KURIOS
to be the subject and TO PNEUMA to be in the predicate.
Stephen Carlson
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