ECEIN PROS TINA - 2 Cor 5:12

Paul Toseland toseland at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Sep 16 16:02:20 EDT 2002


Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:05:08 -0400 I wrote:

>a recent commentator claims that Paul is using an abbreviated 
>form of  a common idiom expressing hostitlity, ECEIN PROS TINA 
>with adverb such as ALLOTRIWS, APECQWS, or KAKWS. Thus he 
>commpares, for example, 3 Mac 5:3,

>SUNAGAGWN … THS STRATIAS APECQWS PROS TOUS IOUDAIOUS

>(‘[When he had given these orders he returned to his feasting 
>together with his friends and] of the army who were especially 
>hostile toward the Jews’ – NRS’)

The text should read  

SUNAGAGWN *TOUS MALISTA* TWN FILWN KAI THS STRATIAS APECQWS 
*ECONTAS* PROS TOUS IOUDAIOUS

Maybe it makes sense now. And the translation was from the NRSV.
 
Thanks to Mme Chabert d'Hyères, BTW, for the Lukan example. This 
is Significant, because Luke does not use PROS; in all the 
examples from Josephus, and the instance from 3 Maccabees, the 
idiom consists of the three elements [ADVERB OF HOSTILITY] [ECEIN] 
[PROS TINA], often (but not always) in that order (Antiquities 
14.164 seems to be mistake – his, not mine!). 

I guess what I am asking is, is ECEIN PROS TINA, in a context 
such as 2 Cor 5:12, context, enough to suggest that an adverb 
of hostility is to be to supplied? Does anyone know of other 
examples of ECEIN PROS TINA being used without supporting adverbs
to express hostility? 

With apologies for my bungling

Paul Toseland
Bristol



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