{"id":3010,"date":"2020-07-16T05:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/16\/love-and-money\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T05:11:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:11:29","slug":"love-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/16\/love-and-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don't say that money is the root of all evil. That's just silly. Say something that is true:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The inordinate<\/strong> love<\/em> of money is the root of SOME evils.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Point proven in Radix Omnium Malorum<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Addendum<\/em> (7\/17). Claude Boisson sends the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As you already know, y<\/span><\/span>our interpretation is exactly that of some careful Greek scholars for the sentence in 1 Timothy 6:10<\/span> <\/div>\n
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http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/dr-hodges-on-1-timothy-610.html<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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See for instance this translation:<\/span><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/biblehub.com\/interlinear\/1_timothy\/6-10.htm<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
(1) First of all philarguria refers to avarice, covetousness, an inordinate, excessive, love of money, greed, not to the entirely reasonable and virtuous desire of having some money.  The word is well-attested in Classical Greek too, not only in koine.<\/span><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/5365.htm<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/searchresults?all_words=filarguri\/a&all_words_expand=yes&la=greek<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The adjective philarguros refers to a miser, a greedy person. It is nominalised in the neuter (to philarguron) in Plato Republic 347b, where its use is clearly very negative, referring again to abnormal love of money  :<\/span><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D1%3Asection%3D347b<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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The verb philargure\u014d (to love money) is also clearly pejorative. It is found in 2 Maccabees 10:20 in the Septuagint.<\/span><\/div>\n
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(2) Secondly, the word for \u2018root\u2019 is not preceded by a definite article, so that \u201ca root of\u201d would seem preferable to \u201cthe root of\u201d. <\/span><\/div>\n
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(3) Thirdly, \u201cpant\u014dn\u201d can be understood as \u201cof all kinds of\u201d, where the quantifier ranges over types, classes, of evil rather than all evils, of whatever kind, within one consolidated class.
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Don't say that money is the root of all evil. That's just silly. Say something that is true: The inordinate love of money is the root of SOME evils. Point proven in Radix Omnium Malorum.  ……………………………….. Addendum (7\/17). Claude Boisson sends the following: As you already know, your interpretation is exactly that of some careful … Continue reading “Love and Money”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,216,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-money-matters","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}