From: Tolliver Family (tolliver@tstar.net)
Date: Sun Sep 20 1998 - 16:48:24 EDT
The difficulty seems to arise from the fact that people come in two sexes,
but words in Greek come in three genders. It may be helpful to look at
other languages that have grammatical gender. German has a large number of
neuter nouns referring to people and I have seen all three genders of
pronouns used with them. It seems that if the person is definitely known
to be of one sex or the other, that sex-appropriate pronoun may be used,
however the neuter pronoun can be used also with no loss of personhood.
ken
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> From: Will Wagers <hyle@gte.net>
> To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Holy Spirit and indications of grammar
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 2:40 PM
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> What is meant by "personhood" and "personality" in these discussions?
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> Will Wagers hyle@gte.net "Reality is the best metaphor."
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