In a message dated 98-05-10 18:50:56 EDT, you write:
<< Then in one demonstrative pronoun (hOUTOS)joins, contains, inclose St.John
in all the last nouns and endings, and he says: "This" is the True God and...
>>
If I understand you correctly, you seem to think that hOUTOS must refer to
that which immediately precedes it. But this is not so, even in John's
writings. Compare 2 John 7.
Greg Stafford
University of Wisconsin