absence of the Greek article. If the word is indefinite, as in Jo. 4:27; 6:68, no article, of course, occurs. But the article is absent in a good many definite phrases also. It is about these that a few words further are needed. A brief summary of the various types of anarthrous definite phrases is given.1 A sane treatment of the subject occurs in Winer-Schmiedel.2 . Here the article is used or not at the will of the writer. So τὸν Ἰησοῦν ὃν Παῦλος κηρύσσει (Ac. 19:13),