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

Harold Holmyard hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 18 11:39:23 EST 2010


Blue and Oun,
> Hi Oun –
>
> I think in this case the normal subject-verb position would prevail and the subject would be followed after the linking verb by what is called a “subject compliment” which renames or defines the subject. The eye would be the subject compliment in this case. Perhaps someone on the list who is an English professor might be able to give you more accurate information, but I believe this is how the sentence should be understood.
>    


The spelling, however, is "subject complement." But I think the second 
half of Matt 6:22 may offer a more relevant parallel to 2 Cor 3:17a:

hO DE KURIOS TO PNEUMA ESTIN


>> hO LUCNOS TOU SWMATOS ESTIN hO OFQALMOS. EAN OUN Hi hO OFQALMOS SOU hAPLOUS, hOLON TO SWMA SOU FWTEINON ESTAI·
>> Mt 6:22
>>
>> Subject verb predicate – Most translations
>> Pr


"All your body is lit-up." The word FWTEINON ("lit-up") is after the 
subject but before the copula verb, functioning as a descriptor of the 
subject. The same word order is present in 2 Cor 3:17a, with TO PNEUMA 
standing in the position corrresponding to FWTEINON in Matt 6:22. So TO 
PNEUMA can similarly be functioning as a descriptor for the subject hO 
KURIOS.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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