Re: [B-Greek] 1 Tim 3:4 What does dignity go with?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Sun Dec 4 08:54:34 EST 2005
On Dec 4, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Roe wrote:
> 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."
But if that's the case here, what should we understand META PASHS
SEMNOTHTOS to mean in conjunction with it? BDAG offers as the
fundamental sense of SEMNOTHS, "a manner or mode of behavior that
indicates one is above what is ordinary and therefore worthy of
special respect."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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