[B-Greek] I Tim 2:14 and GEGONEN
Eric Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
Mon Sep 22 11:23:51 EDT 2003
Thanks, Carl, for letting this topic come back into discussion.
And, I obviously didn't totally exhaust my resources, as I failed
to check Wallace (though his limitation of the aoristic perfect to
narrative would have suggested that I Tim 2:14 is NOT an aoristic
perfect, the near-chimerical beast that it apparently is anyway --
unless Paul's reference to the "narrative" of Eve's/Adam's fall
makes I Tim 2:14 a "narrative" passage) and BDAG's definitions
of "EN."
Your nice exposition perhaps also helps clear up for me the switch
from the singular to the plural in 2:15, as he's seguing from what
he has just stated about the STATE of Eve/woman to its application
to all women. If we treat the perfect as a perfect, then the switch
makes sense. If, however, it's viewed as an aorist, then I think it
is more problematic.
Eric S. Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
http://home1.gte.net/vzn05pnm/index.htm
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