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

Stephen Carlson stemmatic at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 21:16:21 EST 2010


On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, but it still isn't that clear to me.  Part of the difficulty
is that when both the subject and predicate are articulated (as is the
case here), the two are being equated in some sense, so the
identification of the subject and predicate has more to do with
pragmatic than with semantic concerns.  My sense is that Chrysostom is
showing just such an equation by restating the clause the subject and
predicate inverted: Καὶ τοῦτο Κύριός ἐστι / KAI TOUTO KURIOS ESTI
("and this is the Lord").

Stephen Carlson



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