Re: Gender & number: GOMORRA, SODOMA

From: Roe (d.roe@t-online.de)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 08:35:28 EDT


"Steven R. Lo Vullo" schrieb:
>
> David,
>
> Others have answered the question concerning morphology. As for the
> demonstrative TOUTOIS, you're right, the antecedent is not found in v. 7.
> Rather, it is the masculine AGGELOUS of v. 6.

Thanks Steve and others,

I agree that the antecedent for TOUTOIS is AGGELOUS of Jude 6. However,
this not through my own grasping of grammatical explanations offered by
the list.

Louw-Nida and Bauer show SODOMA to be neuter. If SODOMA really is neuter
and not feminine (i.e., if SODOMA, GOMORRA and POLEIS are not *all*
feminine), then it seems grammatically plausible that TOUTOIS (masc.
pl.) could refer to "SODOMA KAI GOMORRA KAI AI PERI AUTAS POLEIS",
according to my understanding of pronoun-antecedent gender agreement,
and ignoring, perhaps, other grammar rules.

(Thanks for patience with my ignorance mingled perhaps with obstinacy...
;-)

David

D. W. Roe
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

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