[B-Greek] 1 Timothy 6,7 Movable Nu

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 25 07:13:46 EDT 2004


At 3:23 AM -0700 8/25/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>Why the movable nu on the first OUDE? And why no
>movable nu on the second (since the word following
>begins with a vowel?)
>
>Mitch Larramore

Mitch, these are two DIFFERENT words: OUDEIS/OUDEMIA/OUDEN =
"nobody,no-one, nothing" (the neuter form means "nothing"; OUDE is a
negative conjunction, "neither/nor" (when used in paired sequence), often
equivalent to KAI OU "not even" or "also not" (which is the sense we must
apply in this instance).


>--- Eddie Mishoe <edmishoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.)
>>
>>
>> =====
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