[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 Sharp’s 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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