TEKNA
Denny A Diehl
dd-1 at juno.com
Thu Jun 27 18:47:10 EDT 2002
Denny Diehl here
It seems that in EVERY instance of which I am aware, that
when "children" (TEKNA) is used, it would comprehend the
singular "child" (TEKNON) as in the following:
"EI DE TIS CHRA TEKNA..." -1 Tim 5:4
which would necessarily include the idea of one child needing to
care for a widowed mother. If Paul wanted to stress a plurality
of children how would that be done in the Greek?
Also, there is a difference in the qualification lists of overseers
and deacons:
"An Overseer must be one... keeping his children"
as opposed to
"Deacons must be... good managers of their children."
Overseer (sg) with TEKNA
Deacons (pl) with TEKNA
Why is overseer (sg) while deacons is plural? Is this just a
stylistic difference, or is there something substantive about
the difference?
All the best.
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