[B-Greek] PNEUMA hAGION as a proper name
Eric S. Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu May 13 16:24:21 EDT 2010
> Blue Meeksbay wrote:
>
> When we do this I think it is reasonable to see what the writer of the Gospel of John believed regarding the Holy
> Spirit. I think one will see he believed the Spirit was more than just an influence or function, but understood him as a
> Person..
>
> JOHN 16:13 hOTAN DE ELQHi EKEINOS, TO PNEUMA THS ALHQEIAS, hODHGHSEI hUMAS EN THi ALHQEIAi
> PASHi• OU GAR LALHSEI AF᾽ hEAUTOU, ALL᾽ hOSA AKOUSEI LALHSEI KAI TA ERCOMENA ANAGGELEI
> hUMIN.
>
> *But when He comes, the Spirit of Truth…*
>
> Here we have the masculine pronoun EKEINOSjoined with the neuter PNEUMA in apposition, thereby showing the
> Spirit is more than just a function, at least in the mind of John. He repeatedly uses EKEINOSas is seen below.
Blue Meeksbay:
Having looked at these PNEUMA hAGION passages in GJohn re: the person-ness of the Holy Spirit, I think it can be
argued/demonstrated that in every instance in which a masculine pronoun is used, the antecedent is the masculine
PARAKLHTOS and not the neuter PNEUMA. There is I think one verse where it may be a bit of a stretch because of
the distance between the antecedent and the pronoun, but it's not an unreasonable stretch.
Hence, I don't think one can argue from GJohn that the author used the masculine pronoun EKEINOS for a neuter noun
PNEUMA to indicate the Person Being-ness of the PNEUMA hAGION, because he in fact did not use EKEINOS for
PNEUMA, but for PARAKLHTOS.
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Eric S. Weiss
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