From: George Goolde (goolde@mtnempire.net)
Date: Wed Dec 22 1999 - 12:19:25 EST
<x-flowed>Steven Craig Miller wrote:
Why would "he, him" be a better translation? The pronouns AUTOU & AUTWi
are
only masculine because the Greek term LOGOS is grammatically masculine.
But
in English the term "word" is considered to be a "thing," and normally in
English we would refer to such a term as "it." Grammatically, it seems to
me that "it" would be the better translation.
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Unless, of course, someone believed/concluded that "Word" here referred to
the name or title of a person, in which case the same logic would cause the
pronouns to be translated as masculine.
George
George A. Goolde
Professor, Bible and Theology
Southern California Bible College & Seminary
El Cajon, California
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