[B-Greek] 2 Peter 3:11 plurals?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Nov 13 06:24:25 EST 2004


At 4:02 PM +1000 11/13/04, <newsgroupstuff at swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
>In 2 Peter 3:11 I believe ANASTROPHAIS and EUSEBEIAIS are both in the
>plural. After a quick check, I don't think they occur elsewhere in the NT in
>the plural.
>
>What is the significance and meaning of the plural here? Is it talking about
>all sorts of holy and godly activities during our life, rather than just
>considering our life as a whole, that it should be a holy and godly
>lifestyle? Is it making the point that there should be many (plural) things
>in our life that will not be burned up, in contrast to 'TOUTWN PANTWN
>LUOMENWN'?

I haven't really looked closely at this passage, but the old rule of thumb
used to be that the plural of abstractions was used to indicate concrete
instances--and so "varieties" of or "kinds of" would be appropriate.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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