[B-Greek] TIVAS in 2 Pet. 3:9

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Jan 26 19:13:00 EST 2011


On Jan 26, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Renwick Preston wrote:

> Is there an antecedent for the TIVAS in 2 Pet. 3:9?

Text:
2Pet. 3:9 οὐ βραδύνει κύριος τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, ὥς τινες βραδύτητα ἡγοῦνται, ἀλλὰ μακροθυμεῖ εἰς ὑμᾶς, μὴ βουλόμενός τινας ἀπολέσθαι ἀλλὰ πάντας εἰς μετάνοιαν χωρῆσαι. 
[Pet. 3:9 OU BRADUNEI KURIOS THS EPAGGELIAS, hWS TINES BRADUTHTA hHGOUNTAI, ALLA MAKROQUMEI EIS hUMAS, MH BOULOMENOS TINAS APOLESQAI ALLA PANTAS EIS METANOIAN CWRHSAI.]

I suppose you must be referring to τινας [TINAS], the only word that looks anything like TIVAS -- I suppose you're using "V" for nu.

TINAS is an indefinite pronoun, nom. pl. common gender, meaning "some (persons)" ot "any (persons) (at all)." I hardly think there's any antecedent referred to; rather there's a clear antithesis of MH ...  TINAS  and PANTAS , "not any ones at all" and "everybody."

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






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