From: Harold R. Holmyard III (hholmyard@ont.com)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 18:11:22 EDT
Dear Gary,
I do not know if you are working from the Greek text in 1 Tim 3:2-3,
but the words that you cite as "reflexive" are not necessarily so in Greek.
The word that some Bibles translate as "hospitable" is in Greek literally
"loving a stranger." The word translated as "respectable" in the NIV is in
Liddell and Scott, a Greek dictionary, rendered as "orderly, well-behaved."
There is nothing grammatical to mark it as reflexive. So DIDAKTIKON need
not gain a "reflexive" tinge ("teachable) from the neighboring words in the
context.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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