Reflexive Pronouns in New Testament 61 1 Thess 2:7 w~ eja;n trofo;~ qavlph/ ta; eJauth`~ tevkna, ... J as when a-nurse cherishes the of-herself children, ... Rom 16:4 oitine~ uJpe;r th`~ yuch`~ mou to;n eJautw'n travchlon uJpevqhkan... { who for the life of-me the of-themselves neck risked ... ... who risked their own necks for my life ... Rule 8 When a pronoun is optionally reflexive according to Rule 7, then it will be reflexive if and only if one of the follow- ing conditions is true: 1. the referent of the pronoun is contrasted with some- thing else; 2. the trigger is the agent of the action that is received by the pronoun, and the NP that governs the pronoun is either part of the body or of the family of the referent of the trigger. The next examples show that both parts of condition (2) must equal- ly apply in order to cause the pronoun to be reflexive. In the first extend- ed passage, the words parqevnon (‘virgin’)21 and kardiva (‘heart’) are body parts or (extended) family members of the referent of the trigger. 1 Cor 7:36-37 36Eij dev ti~ ajschmonei`n ejpi; th;n parqevnon aujtou` nomivzei, If but someone to-be-indecent toward the virgin of-him thinks, ean h\/ uJpevrakmo~ j; kai; ou{tw~ ojfeivlei givnesqai, if she-is past-marriageable-age and thus it-ought to-be, o;J qevlei poieivtw, oujc aJmartavnei, gameivtwsan. what he-wishes let-him-do, not he-sins, let-them-marry. 37 o~J de; e[sthken ejn th'/ kardiva/ aujtou` Whoever but stands in the heart of-him eJdrai`o~ mh; e[cwn ajnavgkhn, ejxousivan de; e[cei peri; steadfast not having necessity, authority but he-has concerning tou` ijdivou qelhvmato~ kai; tou`to kevkriken ejn th'/ ijdiva/ the his-own will and this he-has-judged in the his-own kardia, threi`n th;n eJautou` parqevnon, kalw'~ poihvsei. v/ heart, to-keep the of-himself virgin, well he-will-do. But if someone thinks that he is acting indecently toward his virgin, if she is past the age of marriage and it must be so, let him do what he wishes – he does not sin; let them be married. But whoever stands steadfast in his heart, without necessity, and if he has control over his own will and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, he will do well. 21 What the word refers to in this passage is problematic. Probably, «The reference is to women in the community who have agreed to set up house with a man in order that they may achieve the ideal of Christian asceticism in economic independence.» Gerhard Delling, «parqevno~,» TDNT 5 (1968) 836.