ECEIN PROS TINA - 2 Cor 5:12
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Sep 16 16:39:47 EDT 2002
At 4:02 PM -0400 9/16/02, Paul Toseland wrote:
>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 hostility, ECEIN PROS TINA
>>with adverb such as ALLOTRIWS, APECQWS, or KAKWS. Thus he
>>commpares, for example, 3 Mac 5:3,
>
>>SUNAGAGWN Ö 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" NRSV)
>
>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 ñ 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?
If I rightly understand what BDAG offers for ECEIN PROS TINA, it can be
used that way, either with an accusative object, or, it appears,
intransitively in the sense of "oppose" or "take a stance against."
BDAG, s.v. ECW
9. special combinations
a. w. prep. ... PROS TINA have someth. against someone
(Ps.-Callisth. 2, 21, 21 hOSON TIS hUMWN ECEI PROS hETERON) Ac 24:19.
ZHTHMATA ECEIN PROS TINA have differences w. someone (on points in
question) 25:19. LOGON ECEIN PROS TINA 19:38. PRAGMA (=Lat. causa,
'lawsuit': BGU 19 I, 5; 361 II, 4) ECEIN PROS TINA (POxy 743, 19 [2 BC] EI
PROS ALLOUS EICON PRAGMA; BGU 22:8) 1 Cor 6:1. hINA ECWSIN KATHGORIAN AUTOU
J 8:4 D (cp. 5 above). PROS TINA ECEIN MOMFHN have a complaint against
someone Col 3:13.
I don't see why that wouldn't work in 2 Cor 5:12:
OU PALIN hEAUTOUS SUNISTANOMEN hU(MIN, ALLA AFORMHN DIDONTES UMIN
KAUCHMATOS hUPER hHMWN, hINA ECHTE PROS TOUS EN PROSWPWi KAUXWMENOUS KAI MH
EN KARDIAi.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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