[B-Greek] PASA GRAFH QEOPNEUSTOS KAID WFELIMOS--2 Timothy 3:16

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 26 10:34:53 EDT 2009


What you have just stated you are doing is basing your understanding of the Greek upon a theological basis.  Such is always a dangerous procedure.  You ultimately end up making the text say what you want it to say rather than what the author intended.  Stick to the grammar and lexicography.  If you can't resolve the Greek on that basis, you need to leave it ambiguous. 
 george
gfsomsel 


… search for truth, hear truth, 
learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
defend the truth till death.


- Jan Hus
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From: Leonard Jayawardena <leonardj at live.com>
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Subject: PASA GRAFH QEOPNEUSTOS KAID WFELIMOS--2 Timothy 3:16


Leonard Jayawardena
Sri Lanka

 
My thanks to all who responded to my posts on the above subject.
 
The predicative construction of QEOPNEUSTOS results in a translation, as either "All scripture is God-breathed and profitable, etc." or "Every scripture is God-breathed and profitable, etc.," which is not exegetically acceptable to me, because I do not think that the statement that all scriptures are God-breathed can be proved from the Bible (a demonstration of that lies beyond the scope of this forum). For me a predicative construction of QEOPNEUSTOS results in a contradiction in the Bible which is not acceptable to me, though I am not an inerrantist.  So what does a person in that fix do?  An attributive QEOPNEUSTOS does yield a translation ("Every God-breathed writing is also profitable, etc.") that avoids this contradiction--Don't ask me how it does that, for that would take us to the realm of exegesis. A predicative QEOPNEUSTOS has Paul making a serious error, so, to avoid that, I adopt a construction that separates the two adjectives linked by
 KAI, just as the two genitives in Mark 2:28 are separated to obtain a meaningful translation. 


      


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