godbreathed

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Mon Sep 20 08:00:59 EDT 1999


At 01:36 PM 9/20/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I am looking for secular or other biblical  uses of the word  theopneustos
>(as used in 2 Tim. 3:16).
>
>Was this a common word? How would you define God-breathed?

It occurs in Ps.-Phocylides and some of the Sybilline oracles and some other
obscure Greek inscriptions.  In the NT it only occurs in 2 Tim.  
Whether we like it or not, I think that the word is used by the author to
denote his idea that God "breaths" into his writer that which he wishes to
have said- just as in Greek thought the Muse breaths the idea into the mind
of the poet or writer.  To put it mythologically, God is the Muse for the
writers of various NT documents (so far as the author of 2 Tim is concerned).


Best,

Jim

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