From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 02 1998 - 07:38:22 EDT
At 11:52 PM -0400 7/01/98, Benjamin Raymond wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've previously read PANTA TA EQNH in Mt 28.19 as the antecedent of AUTOUS.
> For some reason I overlooked the gender difference.
>
>Is there an explicit antecedent for AUTOUS?
I think you were right the first time, Ben. EQNH happens to be neuter
plural, but it refers to Gentile persons in this instance, I think we ought
to say, and therefore the generic masculine plural pronoun is used for it
in this instance; certainly there is no other masculine plural antecedent.
Carl W. Conrad
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