[B-Greek] ASQENESTERWi SKEUEI in 1 Peter 3:7

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 02:35:29 EDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Carl Conrad<cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
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> The question is whether you can legitimately understand TWi GUNAIKEIWi as
> independent of ASQENESTERWi SKEUEI. GUNAIKEIWi is not a noun meaning "woman"
> but an adjective meaning "womanly" or "wifely" or "feminine" Ordinarily an
> adjective that agrees with a noun (here SKEUEI) and that is preceded by an
> article is deemed attributive to the noun. If in fact you envision TWi
> GUNAIKEIWi APONEMONTES TIMHN as a syntactic unit, then it will mean
> "allotting honor to what is womanlywifely." It sounds a bit like "das ewig
> Weiblich" to which Goethe pays tribute in the final line of his epic drama,
> Faust.
>
>
>

Thank you, Carl.

I can see how hWS ASQENESTERW SKEUEI and TW GUNAIKEIW should be in
tango together.

Oun Kwon.



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