[B-Greek] MH FOBOUMENAI MHDEMIAN PTOHSIN.
Mark Lama
markosl80 at yahoo.com
Tue May 4 17:35:17 EDT 2004
CAIREIN, FILIPPE,
I don't have my LXX with me right now, just my GNT, so I can't check your reference. It sounds like the interpretation below relies on a separate interpretation of the two participles, AGAQOPOIOUSAI and (MH) FOBOUMENAI, thus: "You have become Sarah's children when you do good (like her) *but* are not afraid with any terror (like she was). Certainly KAI gives little specificity to the relationship between the two participles, but I would prefer to think of them both functioning in the same way, i.e., that these are both things by which a woman, in doing them, becomes a child of, i.e., like, Sarah.
I would add that the general theme of 1 Peter seems to be doing good and not being afraid, and that Peter applies this principle to all. Compare 3:13,14:
KAI TIS hO KAKWSWN hUMAS EAN TOU AGAQOU ZHLWTAI GENHSQE; ALL' EI KAI PASCOITE DIA DIKAIOSUNHN, MAKARIOI. TON DE FOBON AUTWN MH FOBHQHTE MHDE TARACQHTE...
I would say that he is giving the same counsel here specifically to women in the marital relationship.
CARIS SOI KAI EIRHNH,
MARKOS
Mark Lama
"A. Philip Brown II" <pbrown at GBS.EDU> wrote:
CAIREIN,
1 Peter 3:6 hWS SARRA hHS EGENHQHTE TEKNA AGAQOPOIOUSAI KAI MH FOBOUMENAI
MHDEMIAN PTOHSIN.
Hart in Expositor's Greek Testament interprets the last phrase (and not
fearing any terror) in this way:
"from Prov. 3:25 (LXX). Peter regards Sarah's falsehood as the yielding to a
sudden terror for which she was rebuked by God. Fearlessness then is part of
the character which is set before them for imitation ..."
Is this what Peter is saying here? Id be interested in other interpretive
possibilities list members might suggest for the phrase MH FOBOUMENAI
MHDEMIAN PTOHSIN.
CARIS,
Philip Brown
Cincinnati, OH
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