[B-Greek] OFF-LIST hO KURIOS TO PNEUMA - subject or predicate?

Harold Holmyard hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 13 14:04:15 EST 2010


Dear Blue,
> Thanks Stephen! When you read what he says before and after he makes clear he is seeing TO PNEUMA as the subject. It can be found in his “Homilies on Second Corinthians” Homily VII.
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This is an interesting argument that Chrysostom makes. His logic, apart 
from the article, rests on what he believes Paul to be saying, that Paul 
is deliberately equating the Spirit with the Lord in case any should 
perceive a distinction between the One they turned to (the Spirit), and 
the one Moses turned to (the Lord):
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/220207.htm

5. See then from the beginning, how many things he has laid down, as 
constituting the difference and showing the superiority, not the enmity 
or contradiction, of the New Covenant in respect to the old. That, says 
he, is letter, and stone, and a ministration of death, and is done away: 
and yet the Jews were not even vouchsafed this glory. (Or, the glory of 
this.) This table is of the flesh, and spirit, and righteousness, and 
remains; and unto all of us is it vouchsafed, not to one only, as to 
Moses of the lesser then. 2 Corinthians 3:18 “For,” says he, “we all 
with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord,” not 
that of Moses. But since some maintain that the expression, “when one 
shall turn to the Lord,” is spoken of the Son, in contradiction to what 
is quite acknowledged; let us examine the point more accurately, having 
first stated the ground on which they think to establish this. What then 
is this? Like, says one, as it is said, “God is a Spirit;” John 4:24 so 
also here, 'The Lord is a Spirit.' But he did not say, 'The Lord is a 
Spirit,' but, “The Spirit is the Lord.” And there is a great difference 
between this construction and that. For when he is desirous of speaking 
so as you say, he does not join the article to the predicate. And 
besides, let us review all his discourse from the first, of whom has he 
spoken? For instance, when he said, “The letter kills, but the Spirit 
gives life:” 2 Corinthians 3:6 and again, “Written not with ink, but 
with the Spirit of the living God;” 2 Corinthians 3:3 was he speaking of 
God, or of the Spirit? It is very plain that it was of the Spirit; for 
unto It he was calling them from the letter. For lest any, hearing of 
the Spirit, and then reflecting that Moses turned unto the Lord, but 
himself unto the Spirit, should think himself to have the worse, to 
correct such a suspicion as this, he says,

Yours,
Harold Holmyard


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