[B-Greek] The meaning of "theopneustos" in 2 Timothy 3:16

N.E. Barry Hofstetter nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Jul 25 13:40:39 EDT 2006


>From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
>Date: 2006/07/25 Tue PM 12:26:15 CDT
>To: greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The meaning of "theopneustos" in 2 Timothy 3:16


>2TIM. 3:16 PASA GRAFH QEOPNEUSTOS KAI WFELIMOS PROS DIDASKALIAN, PROS  
>ELEGMON, PROS EPANORQWSIN, PROS PAIDEIAN THN EN DIKAIOSUNHi,
>
>W.Mounce (Past.Ep. WBC) states that QEOPNEUSTOS was rarely used in  
>pre-christian texts. Every other source I checked that spoke to the  
>question stated that QEOPNEUSTOS is found for the first time in 2TIM.  
>3:16. Mounce references TDNT 6:453-455 and MM 287. The fog factor in  
>the TDNT article is typical for that reference work, MM however is  
>lucid enough they cite a 2nd Cent AD work Vett.Val. see also F.Danker  
>3rdEd.
>
>I wonder what W.Mounce had in mind?

Can't answer that question, but I remember some source citing Plutarch, the context being that of one of the Greek oracles.  In that research I remember somebody suggesting (it could even have been my own supposition) that these could have been independent coinages, since the word appears otherwise in works dependent on the "Pauline" usage.

Sorry to be so vague, but I am away from my notes.  Not sure about the Vettius Valens citation, could you be more specific?  The Anthologies?  



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