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

nebarry nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Apr 12 15:18:36 EDT 2011


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beata Urbanek" <beata.urbanek at op.pl>
To: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] TINAS in 1 Cor 9:22


> George,
>
> No, suprisingly, the reference is definitely to TINAS. Polish is my motehr 
> tongue, so I think I understand it quite well (much better than English:)
> About PANTWS he writes something else (that it means all ways, all means) 
> and he omits the word in his translation.

I have never seen TIS used in the sense your author seems to desire.  I've 
never seen anyone argue that it does have such a sense in 1 Cor 9:22.  As 
far as I know, there is no support for such a usage in any lexicon to which 
I have access, not even Strong's, which so many people like to cite as an 
authority when they have odd ideas about what the text really *should* mean.

So, though I wouldn't want to judge too harshly without seeing more context, 
the claim as it stands seems to have no merit...

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics and Bible @ TAA
http://www.theamericanacademy.net





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