[B-Greek]  1 Tim 3:4 What does dignity go with?

Roe d.roe at t-online.de
Sun Dec 4 08:46:49 EST 2005


Carl wrote:

> > It is, as you accurately noted in the preceding paragraph
> > PROISTAMENON rather than PROISTAMENOS. My sense of the verb
> > PROISTAMAI is not so much "lead" (although that's offered as one of
> > the primary meanings) so much as "govern" or "rule" or even "exercise
> > discipline over."

Yancy responded:

> I take PROISTAMAI to mean something like  "to so influence others as
> to cause them to follow a recommended course of action — ‘to guide,
> to direct, to lead’" or as BDAG suggest, "to manage or conduct."


Hi everyone,

Is it possible to apply BDAG's second definition for PROISTHMI to verse
5 -- "to have an interest in, show concern for, care for, give aid"?

EI DE TIS TOU IDIOU OIKOU PROSTHNAI OUK OUDEN, PWS EKKLHSIAS QEOU
EPIMELHSETAI  (1 Tim. 3:5)

That is, if we assume the author intends with PROSTHNAI a sense that
corresponds to EPIMELHSETAI (whose only other NT use concerns the good
Samaritan "taking care of" the wounded man), then verse 5 seems to say
that if one does not even rightly care for his family, how could he be
expected to care for his brethren in the congregation -- with PROISTHMI
meaning here "to care for" or "to actively give help."

Thanks for your comments,
David

D.W. Roe
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany




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