τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ (1 Timothy 1:10)
Posted: October 20th, 2015, 11:09 am
1 Timothy 1:10 reads:
πόρνοις, ἀρσενοκοίταις, ἀνδραποδισταῖς, ψεύσταις, ἐπιόρκοις, καὶ εἴ τι ἕτερον τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ ἀντίκειται
Why is τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ dative?
In George W. Knight III's NIGTC commentary on the Pastoral Epistles, he has a brief, cryptic note on this (page 90):
"Finally, contrary to Bouma, it is not the gospel itself that shows the opposition of these sins to sound teaching, but the sound teaching based on that gospel (cf. the dative form following the verb: "contrary to," indicating that to which it is contrary; Robertson).
Does anyone understand what the words in the parenthesis mean? Is he saying that the dative shows "contrary to", perhaps a dative of contrast? I can't find such a thing in Wallace. And Knight did not even give the page number for Robertson!
Or is the dative there because the verb requires its object to be dative? Wallace says that such verbs usually show personal relationship (page 171) and he even places them into sub-categories of trusting, obeying, serving, worshiping, thanksgiving and following (page 172). ἀντίκειται is quite the opposite of all these.
πόρνοις, ἀρσενοκοίταις, ἀνδραποδισταῖς, ψεύσταις, ἐπιόρκοις, καὶ εἴ τι ἕτερον τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ ἀντίκειται
Why is τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ dative?
In George W. Knight III's NIGTC commentary on the Pastoral Epistles, he has a brief, cryptic note on this (page 90):
"Finally, contrary to Bouma, it is not the gospel itself that shows the opposition of these sins to sound teaching, but the sound teaching based on that gospel (cf. the dative form following the verb: "contrary to," indicating that to which it is contrary; Robertson).
Does anyone understand what the words in the parenthesis mean? Is he saying that the dative shows "contrary to", perhaps a dative of contrast? I can't find such a thing in Wallace. And Knight did not even give the page number for Robertson!
Or is the dative there because the verb requires its object to be dative? Wallace says that such verbs usually show personal relationship (page 171) and he even places them into sub-categories of trusting, obeying, serving, worshiping, thanksgiving and following (page 172). ἀντίκειται is quite the opposite of all these.