[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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