[b-greek] Re: Intro and I Cor 4:6

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 06:52:36 EST


At 10:38 PM -0800 12/11/00, Michael Watson wrote:
>Greetings,
>İİİ I think this is my 4th post in about 11/2 years and figured I ought
>to weigh in with an introduction of some kind.
>İİİ I've been fairly active with the text for the past 11+ years and
>have been teaching for the past three. Our school is a small one -
>usually 6 to 18 students per year. We emphasis the GNT so that students
>can (hopefully) translate well after two years of honest work. The
>method isİ inductive starting in John 1:1. First and second year Greek
>is one hour/day, 4 days per week. During the first year they usually
>make it through the first 2-4 chapters in John followed by I
>Thessalonians and Galatians. Sometimes they make it to Ephesians.
>İİİ Second year is a continuation of the first. After using I John to
>knock off the summer rust I take them into Mark and on to Romans. I've
>had some interesting results dragging them through Ephesians/Philippians
>(What I call 'deadheading').

>İİİ I tend to lurk with glee on a daily basis but something struck me
>last night and this is why I'm compelled to write.
>İİİ This awkward construction eluded me until I saw an interesting
>difference between texts. I use the UBS 3rd edition and the Majority
>text on occasion. This is where I found what I'm convinced is an
>articular infinitive. It also appears in the TR but not in my pocket
>Nestle text.
>
>The MT and TR reads:
>I Cor 4:6 TAUTA DE, ADELFOI METESXHMATISA EIS EMAUTON KAI APOLLW DI
>hUMAS hINA EN hHMIN MAQHTE TO MH UPER hO YEYRAPTAI FRONEIN hINA MH EIS
>hUPER TOU hENOS MH FUSIOUSQE KATA TOU hETEROU.
>
>But the UBS and Nestle texts read:
>I Cor 4:6 TAUTA DE ADELFOI METESXHMATISA EIS EMAUTON KAI APOLLWN DI
>hUMAS hINA EN hHMIN MAQHTE TO MH hUPER A YEYRAPTAI hINA MH EIS hUPER TOU
>hENOS FUSIOUSQE KATA TOU hETEROU.
>
>İİİ I also noted Randolph Yeager's interesting comment in vol. 12 p 389:
>
>İİİ .İİ .İİ .İİ TO introduces the object clause, into which we must
>inject an infinitive, perhaps NOMIZEIN - "to think" .İ .İ .İ .
>
>İİİ I've concluded that the MT supplies a more consistent reading with
>TOİ . . .İ FRONEIN limiting (perhaps specifying) the negative clause so
>that the Corinthians have a clear picture of the sphere in which their
>thinking should operate ie. ".. .. .. so that you might learn to think
>only within the sphere of what has been written.. .. .. "İ As well, the
>singular pronoun O is more consistant with the number of YEYRAPTAI
>rather than the plural A even though the plural N can have a 3S verb.
>
>İİİ By default I realize I've made a textual decision but I sincerely
>want to avoid the subject of textual criticism. After years of puzzled
>thought I was tickled to find this reading and I offer my observations
>up for your inspection and comments.

This may seem too simplistic a solution to you, but I think it's what
actually is involved: MH hUPER hA GEGRAPTAI (UBS text) is a cliche'
expression, the meaning of which is well known to the reader/hearer: "not
past the limits drawn." Of course, one must supply a verb, whether FRONEIN
or NOMIZEIN or BAINEIN. Such expressions, like the Apollonian dictum carved
above the portal of the Delphic temple, MHDEN AGAN, are turned into
substantives by sticking a neuter article in front of them TO MHDEN AGAN,
TO MH hUPER hA GEGRAPTAI, whereas in English we tend to set them in quotes.
I'd therefore make the above:

"And I've applied these to myself and Apollos for your sake so that ou may
understand by us [i.e. by our example] [the meaning of] "not past the
boundaries drawn", i.e., so that you don't get your dander up each one for
his own sake against the other."
--

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
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