[B-Greek] 1 Tim. 2:15
Jody Barnard
jbnard at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 11 09:20:04 EST 2004
Thank you for these comments Carl.
Concerning THS TEKNOGONIAS is it fair to say that the
inclusion of the article particularises the noun
meaning that the childbearing in view is a particular
childbirth rather than childbearing in general?
Jody Barnard
England
--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote: > 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)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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