[B-Greek] 1 TIm 3:11 gunaikas
nebarry
nebarry at verizon.net
Mon May 2 10:49:50 EDT 2011
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On May 2, 2011, at 8:12 AM, ceejay haymen wrote:
> Many translations have something like this"Even so [must their] wives [be]
> grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things"
>
> "gunaikas hOsautOs semnas mE diabolous nEphalious pistas en pasin"
>
> Please clarify -kas for me?
> I understand it to be accusative plural ie as in “those” women as in ALL
> women ? so not necessarly "wives" as in the previous verse?
>
> so it could read "women be same serious no adversaries sensible in the
> head having belief"?
>
> ie I am trying to work out if this is for all women, it does not seem to
> refer to women married to the deacons, there are so many opionions in
> transaltions it seems.
> thank you so much
It has nothing to do with it being accusative -- that simply shows it's
grammatical function in the sentence, in this case, dependent on DEI.
"Those" is not implied at all -- we would need a demonstrative pronouns for
that. Look at the entire context -- it is clear that "wives" is the
intended meaning. Also, I have no idea what your translation would mean --
it's pure nonsense.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics and Bible @ TAA
http://www.theamericanacademy.net
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