QEOPNEUSTOS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Apr 28 06:55:29 EDT 2002
At 12:39 AM -0400 4/28/02, William Hale Boyd wrote:
>Thayer says QEOPNEUSTOS is from the two words QEOS (God) and PNEW
>(breathe), therefore "inspired of God." I suppose it would be acceptable
>read this in 2 Timothy 3:16 as "...given by the breath of God." Now the
>noun form of PNEW is PNEUMA (a gentle movement of air, but usually
>spirit.) Could the use of QEOPNEUSTOS in 2 Timothy 3:16 suggest "...given
>by the Spirit of God?"
All of the above is valid, and in fact the standard English adjective
equivalent of QEOPNEUSTOS is "inspired by God"; George Goolde, I recall, in
the days when he used to haunt this list, liked to use regularly
"God-breathed." "Inspire" is a Latin-derived metaphor, also meaning
"breathe into." Today we'd probably call this a metaphor for the notion of
inspiration, which most of us probably no longer think of as a
material-physical process.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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