[B-Greek] Construing 1 Peter 3:7 (was "ASQENESTERWi SKEUEI in 1 Peter 3:7")
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 27 16:44:50 EDT 2009
Mike,
> > I have a hard time
> > seeing the phrase as construed with both verbs because in English
> > different prepositions would be involved: "living together as with a
> > weaker vessel" versus "showing honor as to a weaker vessel," but
> perhaps
> > that problem would not have existed in Greek
>
> Be careful with this. Red flags should always go up when you're
> apprehensiveness with a given interpretation is based on how
> English would construe something
HH: I know you're right in general, but one possible red flag is that
the same phrase would have different functions with respect to the two
verbs. I think I am tending to agree with Iver:
>> >> I would understand hWS ASQENESTERWi SKEUEI TWi GUNAIKEIWi as
>> >> construing with hOMOIWS, SUNOIKOUNTES, and APONEMONTES TIMHN as
>> >> construing with hWS SUGKLHRONOMOIS ZWHS.
HH: This does give an orderly structure to the sentence, with one hWS
phrase modifying each verb. The UBS 4th edition agrees with Iver,
putting a comma after TWi GUNAIKEIWi.
HH: It seems that SUNOIKOUNTES probably has an understood object of the
GUNAIKES (3:1) who were the subject of the previous set of instructions
in 3:1-6. Carl expressed the understood term as possibly (TAIS)
GUNAIXI(N). He was thinking of the second verb, but it is probably first
understood with the first verb and so carries over with the second. That
is why it is easy to shift to the plural SUGKLHRONOMOIS, as referring
back to the understood objects of the verbs.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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