While I can think of or find no other examples of this in the NT, I would
understand this TOUTO as referring back to the preceding clause, THi GAR
XARITI SESWiSMENOI ESTE, and picking it up as the subject of OUK (ESTIN) EX
hUMWN: i.e.: "This (the fact that you have been saved) (is) not from you,
(it is) a gift of God.
Wallace (_Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics_, an impressive work in many
ways, although I'm hesitant about his own multiplication of syntactical
categories and readiness to create new terminology) has a nice discussion
of alternative understandings of this passage (pp. 334-5, under the heading
"Debatable Example"), and I note that this is the alternative he prefers
also. There's no way that the TOUTO can refer back to PISTEWS, at least not
in erms of grammatical logic.
Carl W. Conrad
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