[B-Greek] The meaning of "theopneustos" in 2 Timothy 3:16
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 25 21:23:01 EDT 2006
On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Harold Holmyard wrote:
>
>> "Phocylid. 121 'tes de theopneustou sophies logos estin aristos'."
>>
>> The Columbia Encyclopedia has:
>>
>> "Phocylides: (fsl´dz) (KEY) , fl. 6th cent. B.C., Greek poet, b.
>> Miletus. His gnomic (aphoristic) verses exist in fragments."
>>
>> B. B. Warfield also seems to mention a reference in Plutarch, but
>> he was
>> a considerably younger contemporary of Paul:
>>
>> "Plut. de Placit. Philosoph. 5. 2, 'tous oneirous tous
>> theopneustous'."
>
>
> Well its been a while since Warfield. I searched Phocylides for all
> the sub strings in
> 'tes de theopneustou sophies logos estin aristos' using TLG and
> found nothing.
>
> Elizabeth Kline
>
>
On the other hand, that exact quote is found in Alford so we can
guess where Warfield got it and now the question is what happened to
the text that Alford was using? This is getting interesting, need to
do some more work on the MANETHO citation, does anyone know if he
wrote in Greek?
Elizabeth Kline
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