ECEIN PROS TINA - 2 Cor 5:12

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 17 19:17:37 EDT 2002


At 7:02 PM -0400 9/17/02, Paul Toseland wrote:
>Many thanks to you, Carl, George and Iver, for your thoughtful
>and infrormative responses. Perhaps, like many things in our
>field, we will never quite reach consensus. I would be happier
>with the proposed in interpretation if I could see some more
>precise parallels, with ECEIN intransitive and no supporting
>adverbs.
>
>But I would like to query the example from Pseudo-Callisthenes,
>cited by BDAG: hOSON TIS hUMWN ECEI PROS hETERON. Here, PROS
>seems to take on a sense very close to that of KATA in Mt 5:23,
>hO ADELFOS SOU EXEI TI KATA SOU; or am I mistaken?

That would be my judgment, FWIW: "Whatever/however much one holds vis-a-vis
a second party ..." = "However great the difference one has with another
..."
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Carl W. Conrad
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