[B-Greek] TINAS in 1 Cor 9:22

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Apr 12 12:02:09 EDT 2011


On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Beata Urbanek wrote:

> Dear List-members,
> 
> I've just been surprised by a commentary on the text.
> One of the Polish scholars tranlates
> hINA PANTWS TINAS SWSW
> as "to save all".
> He explains that TINAS means sort of "each and everyone". 
> I looked up TIS in lexicons but couldn't see such a meaning. 
> 
> Is he right?

Well, one of the oldest ploys in the world is interpreting the
text to say what you want it to say. But I hardly think that
we can work the equation, TINAS -= PANTAS.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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