The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 452

:

FAITH

412

of faith, so long as the soul possesses the being of faith. after the

example

of our fathers,

we

except it hastens on toward spring, when and that the being of faith gives evidence of the soul only by hastening on toward its a/^//-being.

in winter,

it

again

its

in

Altho,

add, that the tree does not live

;

shall

bud

presence

Postscript. It of

is

necessary to point out two things regarding the shallowness

which we complain. a neuter pronoun with a feminine not a mistake, but excellent Greek.

First, that the construction of

noun as

antecedent

its

is

Second, that the Church had reasons the words

"

and that not of yourselves "

In regard to thQ first point, tion,

we

why

until

now

she

made

refer to faith.

refer not to a Hellenistic excep-

but to the ordinary rule, which

is

found in every good Greek

syntax, and which every exegete ought to know.

A

among others, was formulated by Kiihner, in his Grammatik der Griech. Sprache," vol. ii., i, p. 54 (Han., 1870), and which is as follows: " Besonders Mufig steht das Neutrum eines demonstrativen Pronofnefis in JBeziehung auf ein fndnnliches Oder weibliches Substantiv, indem der Begriff desselben ganz allgemein ah blosses Ding oder IVesen, oder auch als ein ganzer Gedanke aufgefasst wird." Which is in English: A neutral demonstrative "

rule which,

Ausfiihrliche

pronoun

frequently used to refer to a preceding masculine or

is

feminine noun,

when

the meaning expressed by this

word

is

taken

in a general sense, etc.

The examples

cited

by Kiihner deal a death-blow

Plato, "Protagoras," 357, C.

:

'OfioTioyovfiEV iniaTtjfiTiq /iTjdev elvac Kpe'iTTOv^

Koi ^6ov^g Koi tuv

Plato,

aMuv

"Menon,"

'EnecS^ toIvw

^^i

to the Utrecht

Take, for instance, these from Plato and Xenophon

exegesis.

Topyiaf

rj

a?.7[.a

tovto

cieI

Kpareiv, birov av fry,

aKavruv.

73, C.

avrrj

:

apery ndvruv kari, neipu elnEiv kqi avafiv^adyvai^ ri aind

elvai.

Xenophon, "Hiero," Et ifiTTopia irActoif ayeipoi.

u(ji£X€l

ix., 9.

Ti ndXiv^

Tifi6fi£V0i

av 6 nXelara tovto noiuv kcI

ifiirdpovf

iv

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