[B-Greek] 1 Timothy 6,7

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Aug 25 07:08:56 EDT 2004


On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Eddie Mishoe
<edmishoe at yahoo.com> writes:
> OUDEN GAR EISHNEGKAMEN EIS TON KOSMON, hOTI OUDE
> EXENEGKEIN TI DUNAMEQA
> 
> NET Bible note:
> The Greek conjunction hOTI usually means "because,"
> but here it takes the sense "so that" (see BDAG 732
> s.v. 5.c). This unusual sense led to textual variation
> ("it is clear that" or "it is true that"), as scribes
> attempted to correct what appeared to be an error. The
> simple conjunction is preferred on both internal and
> external grounds. 
> 
> I have not come across a satisfactory explanation for
> this hOTI, including this NET note. Is there another
> meaning to hOTI that others have run across in their
> readings that would give a better sense to the
> relationship of these two clauses? (The second clause
> does not seem to me to follow logically from the
> first. Both may be true, but I don't see one lending
> support to the other.)
> 
> 
> =====

A good place to start is always with the lexicon.  Here BGAD (hOTI,
2d-gamma) has 

consecutive hOTI so that (Pel.-Leg. p. 20 TI DIDOIS TOIS AMNOIS SOU hOTI
ZWHN AIWNION EXOUSIN; Acta Christophori p. 68, 18 Usener TOIOUTOI GAR
EISIN hOI QEOI hUMWN, hOTI hUPO GUNAIKOS EKINHQHSAN.  Gen 20:9; Judg
14:3; 1 Km 20:1; 3 Km 18:9) POU hOUTOS MELLEI PREUESQAI, hOTI hHMEIS OUX
hEURHSOMEN AUTON;  J 7:35. TI GEGONEN hOTI . . . ; what has happened, so
that (=to bring it about that). . . ? 14:22 (so Rob. 1001; differently
Rdm.2 196 and Bl-D. §480, 6 app.). This is prob. also the place for OUDEN
EISHNEGKAMEN EIS TON KOSMON, hOTI OUDE ECENEGKEIN TI DUNAMEQA we have
brought nothing into the world, so that (as a result) we can take nothing
out of it 1 Ti 6:7. TI ESTIN ANQRWPOS, hOTI MIMNHiSKHi AUTOU;  Hb 2:6 (Ps
8:5). 

george
gfsomsel


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