[B-Greek] TELEW in 2 Cor 12:9
Kenneth Litwak
javajedi2 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 27 18:18:32 EST 2005
I heard a pesentation last night that argued that
TELEITAI in 2 Cor 12:9 should be rendered with the
standard meaning of TELEIN: to end, finish, rather
than the sense of "make perfect" or "mature" which is
not the way the NT generally uses this verb. This
would then mean that Paul's power was ended by his
weakness, and therefore he depends upon Christ's
power, which is explicitly stated in 2 Cor 12:9b.
That makes sense of the context (whereas the other
meaning for TELEIN does not) and gives TELEW its more
natural, common meaning. Yet, translations virtually
all take the rare menaing neddlessly. This seems
compelling to me. Any comments?
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