Phil 4:6 ALL EN PANTI

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Dec 29 19:30:46 EST 2002


At 5:32 PM -0800 12/29/02, Harry  W. Jones wrote:
>Hi Carl!
>
>I agree we went over PAS in 1Timothy 2:4 before.  But I don't believe any
>guide lines were ever arrived at for translating PAS as  "All" vs "Every".
>My grammar by Stevens gives
>
>PAS(sg) + noun(sg) = "every ______"
>
>PANTES(pl) + noun(pl) = "all ______"
>
>for anarthrous constructions.
>
>And
>
>PAS + [article + noun] = "all the _____"
>
>[article + PAS ] + noun = "the whole ______"
>
>for articular constructions.
>
>Now I just don't see how "every" is the same as "all" , though.
>
>But what do you think?

Harry, LOOK at what the dictionaries say; I cited the relevant section of
BDAG; you should read the entire article on PAS, and you should also not
expect Greek PAS to correspond in every respect to the English adjective
"all." "Every" is a distributive sense and will only have a bearing on the
singular of PAS/PASA/PAN. I really think that your problem has to do more
with English than with Greek.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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