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

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Tue Jul 25 22:23:36 EDT 2006


Elizabeth Kline wrote:

>
> 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?


Here's Wikipedia:

Although no sources for the dates of his life and death remain, his work 
is usually associated with the reigns of Ptolemy I Soter (323-283 BCE) 
and Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246 BCE). If the mention of Manetho in 
the Hibeh Papyri, dated to 240/1 BCE, is in fact Manetho the author of 
Aegyptiaca, then he may well have been working during the reign of 
Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-222 BCE) as well. Although he was Egyptian 
and his topics dealt with Egyptian matters, he wrote solely in Greek.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard



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