[B-Greek] 1 Tim. 2:15

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 10 07:21:09 EST 2004


At 11:39 AM +0000 3/10/04, Jody Barnard wrote:
>Thank you for your comments on this. No-one seemed to
>dispute my understanding that the participle THS
>TEKNOGONIAS refers to a specific child birth (on
>account of the article)i.e. the birth of Christ rather
>than childbearing in general. Do you think this is an
>acceptable understanding of the participle?

(a) TEKNOGONIAS in 1 Tim 2.15 is not a participle; it is the genitive sg.
of a noun TEKNOGONIA; perhaps you meant "gerund" since TEKNOGONIA is
commonly translated as an English gerund, "childbearing."

(b) As for the interpretation of the passage, I think it would be a mistake
to suppose that there's any broad consensus over the meaning of the
passage. You might do well to look at the notes on this verse in the NET
Bible on-line at http://www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm for the range of
conceivable interpretations of this passage that have been held and an
editorial evaluation of their merits and problems. I'm not endorsing the
editor's stance there but I think it is a sober recognition of the
difficulties associated with alternative solutions of the problems of the
text in question.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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