[B-Greek] 1Co 13:7 PANTA believe all?

Nikolaos Adamou ntgreekreader at gmail.com
Fri May 13 05:22:15 EDT 2011


I think the light in this structure comes from the syntax and not from the
grammar.
This part of 1rst Corinthians is one of the most beautiful rhetorical
structures, very meaningful rhetoric.
Go back to v. 4.
The subject is LOVE ἡ ἀγάπη
then:
two positive verbs, μακροθυμεῖ,
                           χρηστεύεται
eight negative statements
                       1 οὐ ζηλοῖ,
                       2 οὐ περπερεύεται,
                       3 οὐ φυσιοῦται,
**<http://biblos.com/1_corinthians/13-5.htm>
                       4 οὐκ ἀσχημονεῖ,
                       5 οὐ ζητεῖ τὰ ἑαυτῆς,
                       6 οὐ παροξύνεται,
                       7 οὐ λογίζεται τὸ κακόν,
**<http://biblos.com/1_corinthians/13-6.htm>
                       8 οὐ χαίρει ἐπὶ τῇ ἀδικίᾳ, συγχαίρει providing an
antithesis
and then four global statments
πάντα 1 στέγει,
          2 πιστεύει,
          3 ἐλπίζει,
          4 ὑπομένει.

I could say, not only both things and people, but everything, more than
things and people, when there is a true LOVE


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Vasile Stancu <stancu.c.vasile at gmail.com>wrote:

> And to extend a little bit the confusion (or, on the contrary, to remove
> it at least partially), consider these statements together, two by two:
>
> πάντα πιστεύει PANTA PISTEUEI (1Co 13:7)
> μὴ παντὶ πνεύματι πιστεύετε MH PANTI PNEUMATI PISTEUETE (1Jn 4:1)
>
> μὴ ἀποκρίνου ἄφρονι πρὸς τὴν ἐκείνου ἀφροσύνην MH APOKRINOU AFRONI PROS
> THN EKEINOU AFROSUNHN (Prov 26:4)
> ἀλλὰ ἀποκρίνου ἄφρονι κατὰ τὴν ἀφροσύνην αὐτοῦ ALLA APOKRINOU AFRONI
> KATA THN AFROSUNHN AUTOU (Prov 26:5)
>
> Vasile Stancu
>
>
> On 5/13/2011 7:27 AM, Oun Kwon wrote:
> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Barry H.<nebarry at verizon.net>  wrote:
> >
> >> The PANTA's are direct objects of their respective verbs.  The grammar
> is
> >> simple, but what it means, "believes all things," that's a matter of
> >> interpretation!
> >>
> >> N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
> > You bring me back to where I was. What does it mean to believe 'all
> > things'? I can't get it . Keep faith in God in all things?
> >
> > Oun Kwon.
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