Winer writes: “The pronoun [houʹtos] sometimes refers, not to the noun locally nearest, but to one more remote, which, as the principal subject, was mentally the nearest, the most present to the writer’s thoughts. ” ​ — A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament, 7th edition, 1897.
( A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament [Jaunās derības idiomu gramatika], 7. izdevums, 1897.)