[B-Greek] The relative pronouns in Ephesians 6:17 and Revelation 5:8‏‏

Leonard Jayawardena leonardj at live.com
Thu Oct 14 02:21:03 EDT 2010


Wong Hung Huen wrote:

as Leonard has pointed out the idea of gender assimilation according to the following predicate substantive,but how are going to understand the relative pronoun hO in Eph 6:17, can we be very sure to say that it is because this relative pronoun is assimilated in gender to the word hRHMA, the hO can refer to MACAIRAN (feminine) instead of PNEUMATOS which is neuter in gender and the noun nearest to the relative pronoun?This is different from the case of Rev. 5:8, where becaue of the factor of gender assimilation in operation, the relative pronoun there hAI can refer to prayers though it is not in agreement with the words incenses in gender.

LJ: I have explained in my penultimate post the two possibilities of understanding the relative pronoun in Ephesians 6:17: either (a) hO ESTIN as explanatory; or (b) the relative pronoun assimilating in gender to the predicate substantive,viz., RHMA.
 
I prefer (a).


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