[B-Greek] Where does meaning come from?
Vasileios Tsialas
tsialas78 at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 1 04:10:57 EDT 2010
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> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:05:57 +0300
> Subject: [B-Greek] Where does meaning come from?
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> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] question regarding 1 Tim 6:10
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> >Mark is correct to infer that Paul's meaning
> > cannot possibly be that the love of money is actually the root of 100% all
> > evils, despite the fact that the linguistic meaning is precisely that. But we
> > must allow Paul the freedom we give ourselves, to quote and shape and
> > exaggerate and skew linguistic and speaker meaning.
> >
> > The first two paragraphs above are adapted from Sperber and Wilson, Relevance:
> > Communication and Cognition.
> >
> > Yancy Smith, PhD
>
Even though I agree with the spirit of thought, I wouldn't agree that here Paul says that, "love of money is actually THE root of 100% ALL evils". Ρίζα RIZA is unarticulated and παντων PANTWN can mean, instead of "all", "every short of". The meanning of this phrase, as long as I understand it in Greek, is: "Love of money causes every short of evils", which is not really an exaggeration.
Vasileios Tsialas
Athens, Greece
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