[B-Greek] Titus 2:13
Edgar Foster
edgarfoster2003 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 25 21:24:41 EDT 2006
Speaking of Sharp's Rule, I came across a passage in
Maximus of Tyre (Dissertatio 2.10) and I wonder
whether it has any relevance to the aforesaid rule:
hO MEN GAR QEOS, hO TWN ONTWN PATHR KAI DHMIOURGOS,
[hO] PRESBUTEROS MEN hHLIOU . . .
Of course, Maximus is extracting concepts from Timaeus
28C:
TON MEN OUN POIHTHN KAI PATERA TOUS hEUREIN. . .
Plato seems to have one entity in mind, although
Plutarch interprets Timaeus 28C as a reference to a
transcendent Father along with a Demiurge.
Best wishes,
Edgar Foster
--- George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you are trying to get at when you
> state " I infer that Sharps Rule does not apply is
> that the title the Great God would not be
> pluralized." Sharp's rule doesn't speak of the
> possibility of being pluralized. It states that it
> DOES NOT COVER plurals.
>
> You wrote, "Your example would be syntactically
> equivalent if it had the following structure: . . ."
> Why? I see no problem with ONOMATOS TOU PATROU TWN
> hOLWN. Why are you attempting to put so many
> conditions upon it which aren't really relevant?
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