1 Cor 7:36 καὶ οὕτως ὀφείλει γίνεσθαι
Posted: December 19th, 2016, 7:51 pm
I am puzzling over this phrase in 1 Cor 7:36 Εἰ δέ τις ἀσχημονεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν παρθένον αὐτοῦ νομίζει, ἐὰν ᾖ ὑπέρακμος καὶ οὕτως ὀφείλει γίνεσθαι, ὃ θέλει ποιείτω, οὐχ ἁμαρτάνει, γαμείτωσαν.
How does this clause relate structurally to the other clauses? The NA27 punctuates it as it is governed by ἐάν but the mood seems wrong for that. Is it another condition governed by the initial εἰ? Or, does the καί mark the apodosis, and it is a consequence of the conditions?
What is the sense of ὀφείλει? Deontic, what one is obligated (socially) to do? Epistemic, what is bound to happen? Bruce Winter 1998, Tyn Bull 49:71-89, translates it following the latter as "and thus is bound to happen," but he does not justify the epistemic reading of ὀφείλει if it even has one.
What is the subject of ὀφείλει γίνεσθαι? Does it look forward to the marriage? Or back to the action of behaving shamefully (ἀσχημονεῖν), as Winter proposes? Similarly, is οὕτως cataphoric (explained later) or anaphoric (explained earlier)?
(These questions are just some of the ambiguities here: does ὑπέρακμος refer to the female or the male? Does the παρθένον refer to one's betrothed or one's daughter? etc.)
How does this clause relate structurally to the other clauses? The NA27 punctuates it as it is governed by ἐάν but the mood seems wrong for that. Is it another condition governed by the initial εἰ? Or, does the καί mark the apodosis, and it is a consequence of the conditions?
What is the sense of ὀφείλει? Deontic, what one is obligated (socially) to do? Epistemic, what is bound to happen? Bruce Winter 1998, Tyn Bull 49:71-89, translates it following the latter as "and thus is bound to happen," but he does not justify the epistemic reading of ὀφείλει if it even has one.
What is the subject of ὀφείλει γίνεσθαι? Does it look forward to the marriage? Or back to the action of behaving shamefully (ἀσχημονεῖν), as Winter proposes? Similarly, is οὕτως cataphoric (explained later) or anaphoric (explained earlier)?
(These questions are just some of the ambiguities here: does ὑπέρακμος refer to the female or the male? Does the παρθένον refer to one's betrothed or one's daughter? etc.)