[b-greek] Re: Eph 5:18, EN PNEUMATI

From: dixonps@juno.com
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 11:23:44 EDT


On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:26:39 -0500 "Harold R. Holmyard III"
<hholmyard@ont.com> writes:
> Dear Paul,
>
> You write:
>
> >Am re-thinking whether the anarthrous construction here [in Eph
> 5:18],
> >coupled with the contextual PERIPATEITE EN AGAPNi (5:2), hWS TEKNA
> QWTOS
> >PERIPATEITE (5:8) and PERIPATEITE ... hWS SOFOI (5:15), shouldn't
> be taken
> >as an exhortation to be continually filled with spiritual matters,
> such as
> >love, holiness, and wisdom.
>
> >Thoughts?
>
> Paul, please compare Acts 13:52.

Thanks, Harold, but I don't find much help there. If we compare
the anarthrous CARAS to its complementary anarthrous
PNEUMATOS hAGIOU (in Acts 13:52), on what basis do we
opt for an indefinite or qualitative joy in the first followed by
a definite Holy Spirit in the second?

Furthermore, even if hAGIOU does qualify PNEUMATOS, is it
enough to identify it as the Holy Spirit? Why couldn't it refer to
a holy spirit?

Paul Dixon

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