τίς in Titus 1:6
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Titus 1:6
“If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.”
She would have to be a lesbian then.
“If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.”
She would have to be a lesbian then.
Why do you ask? Are you suggesting that if a woman has a woman wife, and they live together as husband and wife, a woman can be an elder in Christ's church?
While τίς may be indefinite, ἀνήρ isn't... is it? So, it seems to me that τίς isn't really as indefinite as it first appears.
τίς is always an indefinite. Gender is always supplied by context.
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The rest of the context certainly does not allow for it.
It would be my guess that the use of τίς implies eternal universal application of the standard. Must without exception be ....(as the verse states) so it would also exclude single guys, regardless of how up standing, it could also exclude men who dont have children and certainly excludes men who have unruly and riotous trouble making children.
That would be my summation of the text there.
It would be my guess that the use of τίς implies eternal universal application of the standard. Must without exception be ....(as the verse states) so it would also exclude single guys, regardless of how up standing, it could also exclude men who dont have children and certainly excludes men who have unruly and riotous trouble making children.
That would be my summation of the text there.
I understand the question but since you're being so evasive I question your motives. You're on your own as far as I'm concerned bro.
just to clarify, I understand fully that the context demands the masculine gender. That is NOT what I am asking. What I want to know is if one wished to argue from a point of grammar that since τίς is indefinite, this could also imply women, what possible argument could they make? Forget for a moment that the remainder of the text even exists and focus just on the phrase εἴ τίς ἐστιν ἀνέγκλητος.
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Re: εἴ τίς ἐστιν ἀνέγκλητος.
I have no clue what that says in Greek because my interlinear doesn't show
Titus 1:6 like that; but I have to say that sans an intelligent context: the
phrase "If any be blameless" could be variously applied to kindergartners,
parakeets, puppy dogs, and/or Jedi knights.
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Re: εἴ τίς ἐστιν ἀνέγκλητος.
I have no clue what that says in Greek because my interlinear doesn't show
Titus 1:6 like that; but I have to say that sans an intelligent context: the
phrase "If any be blameless" could be variously applied to kindergartners,
parakeets, puppy dogs, and/or Jedi knights.
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If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. How can this be construed as anything other than one of the qualifications of a MALE elder? There is really no need for any "argument" since this is cut and dried.