[B-Greek] NAUAGEO in 1 Tim 1:19

Rick Brannan textgeek+bgreek at gmail.com
Tue May 3 16:03:33 EDT 2011


Hi Ted.

Philo uses the term similarly in "On the Change of Names, 215". The
English is from Yonge's edition:

… if we have fallen in with ever so slight a breeze which bears us
towards the good fortune, immediately set all sail and became greatly
elated, and being full of great and high spirits, hurry forward with
all our speed to the indulgence of our passions, and never will check
our unbridled and immoderately excited desires until we run ashore and
are wrecked as to the whole vessel of our souls.

The last part is:

ἕως ἂν ἐξοκείλαντες ὅλῳ τῷ ψυχῆς ναυαγήσωμεν σκάφει
EWS AN ECOKEILANTES OLW TW YUXHS NAUAGHSWMEN SKAFEI

Philo uses it again in "On Dreams, 247". BDAG lists some other
instances; TDNT and M-M list other examples too.

Hope it helps,

Rick Brannan
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Ted & Robin Shoemaker <shoes6 at juno.com> wrote:
>
> NAUAGEO in 1 Timothy 1:19
>
> First, the Greek:
>
> ECWV PISTIN KAI AGAQHN SUNEIDHSIN HN TINES APWSAMENOI PERI THN PISTIN ENAUAGHSAN
>
> then the English:
>
> keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.  [NASB]
>
> then the question:
>
> A check of online lexicons simply says that NAUAGEO means
> 1.  literally, to shipwreck
> 2.  figuratively, to be ruined
>
> There are certainly many choices of Greek words that can mean "ruin" or "destruction", not only NAUAGEO.  Any word other than the most obvious choice leads us to ask the question "Why did the author choose this word?"
>
> "Shipwreck" isn't the word I'd use, to say that somebody has messed up his life.  Maybe there's a shade of meaning that escapes us in English?  (Or, as my daughter suggests, maybe Paul was thinking of his own shipwreck experiences!)
>
> Does anyone know of any figurative uses of NAUAGEO outside of 1 Timothy 1:19?  I'm hoping that some poor soul used it some time in antiquity, and his metaphorical shipwreck, (ruin, destruction . . . )
> will be illustrative for us.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Ted Shoemaker
>
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>
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