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

Stephen Carlson stemmatic at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 07:51:27 EST 2010


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is what Alford says about Chrysostom:
> “The principal mistaken interpretation…is that of Chrys., Theodoret,
> Theophyl, (Ecum., Estius, Schulz, - making TO PNEUMA the subject, and hO
> KUR.  the  predicate, which though perhaps (but would DE then have had its
> present position?) allowable, is against the context, hO KUR. being plainly
> resumed from hO KUR. in ver. 16.”
...
> As I said in my first reply to your email, I tend to agree with you, and I
> still do! ... but I wonder why Chrys., et al. would believe TO PNEUMA should
> be seen as the subject.

>From my perspective, even though Alford clearly states that Chrysostom
took TO PNEUMA as the subject, that becomes much less clear when I
read what Chrysostom actually wrote (in the Greek, not in that English
translation that begged the question).  I don't know what Theodoret or
Theophylact had to say, and it is possible that they were more
explicit than Chrysostom, but the case of Chrysostom is not clear to
me.  Therefore, I am not wondering why Chrysostom would believe that
TO PNEUMA was the subject until I'm satisfied that he actually did
interpret it that way.

Stephen Carlson



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