[B-Greek] question regarding 1 Tim 6:10

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 31 18:59:03 EDT 2010


-- On Tue, 3/30/10, ray marion wrote:


<Does anyone agree with my translation of 1St Timothy 6:10?

riza  gar pantwn twn kakawn estin h   filarguria

a root  For of all      the   evils          is     the  love of money.

For a root of all the evils is the love of money>

 
Hi, Ray,
 
Yes, I agree with your translation, which softens 
the dictum from THE root of all evils. (cf. KJV)
 
I should say that my agreement has nothing to
do with the fact that the RIZA does not have the definite
article and  KAKWN does.
Just by coincidence, I happened to be
re-reading Chariton 4:2, 7 this morning and noticed this
 
"συ παντων ημιν των κακων αιτια."
 
SU PANTWN HMIN TWN KAKWN AITIA
 
"You are the cause of all of our evils."
 
Here Polycharmus means that Callirhoe is THE (one and
only ) cause of every last one of their troubles.  Paul
clearly does not mean this about the love of money.
In both cases the noun (RIZA and AITIA) is anarthrous.
The forms are the same, but the meanings are galaxies apart.
 
I agree with Elizabeth that Meaning Precedes Form.  What
I'm trying to figure out is, where does Meaning come from?
 
 
Mark L
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