[B-Greek] AUQENTEIN ANDROS

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Sun Oct 2 11:39:15 EDT 2005


On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:11:54 +1300 "greg coupe"
<gregorycoupe at hotmail.com> writes:
> I don't understand why "authentein andros" (AUQENTEIN ANDROS) cannot 
> be 
> translated "to be exercising male authority."
> Authentein (AUQENTEIN) means "to be self (auto)-working (hentes)" 
> which 
> basically means "to be exercising authority."
> Andros means "of man." So the words "AUQENTEIN ANDROS" means "to be 
> self 
> working of man" or "to be exercising authority of man." I understand 
> that 
> this can be translated "to be exercising authority OVER man" but why 
> is it 
> impossible to translate it "to be exercising male authority" i.e "to 
> be 
> exercising the authority which belongs to man, which he has the job 
> of 
> exercising." For example, if Paul considered teaching in church to 
> be a job 
> reserved for male's he might say that a woman who was teaching in 
> church was 
> "exercising male authority." Please explain why the translation "to 
> be 
> exercising male authority" is an impossible translation.
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AUQENTEW takes the genitive for that over which authority is exercised
(see BDAG).  This is the situation which occurs in 1 Tim 2.12.

george
gfsomsel
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