[B-Greek] RE; John 2:4 TI EMOI KAI SOI

Patrick Narkinsky patrick at narkinsky.com
Tue Feb 23 21:51:57 EST 2010


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Jeffrey B. Gibson <jgibson000 at comcast.net>
 wrote:

> And in any case,  what I DID say was that if was fallacious on a number
> of levels to attempt to determine the meaning of a Greek term by an
> appeal to what a given poster believes about the nature of Jesus' moral
> character.
>

There's a way to put it that's less fallacious--or at least obviously
fallacious.  I think you could legitimately say, within the bounds of a
critical perspective, that the evangelist wouldn't have chosen that phrasing
if he thought it disrespectful.  Therefore, at least within his knowledge of
Greek usage, it wasn't disrespectful.  I wouldn't use this sort of argument
to "trump" convincing evidence elsewhere that the phrase was
disrespectful... but in the absence of that evidence, I think we can
legitimately say that Jesus' use of the phrase does point towards a more
positive interpretation of it.

--
Patrick Narkinsky
patrick at narkinsky.com

"Let things true be preferred to things false, things eternal to things
momentary, things useful to things agreeable."

Lucius Caelius Lactantius




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