Εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν κύριον, ἐπισκοποῦντες μή τις ὑστερῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χάριτος τοῦ θεοῦ, μή τις ῥίζα πικρίας ἄνω φύουσα ἐνοχλῇ καὶ δι’ αὐτῆς μιανθῶσιν πολλοί, μή τις πόρνος ἢ βέβηλος ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὃς ἀντὶ βρώσεως μιᾶς ἀπέδετο τὰ πρωτοτόκια ἑαυτοῦ.
I’m having trouble with this. In the Cambridge Greek Lexicon it lists four possible uses for μή τις (or μή τις) under the heading οὔτις:
- (as adj.) not any, no
- (as pron.) no one, nobody, nothing
- not any, none (with partitive genitive plural of persons or things)
- (as conjunction μή τις) in case anyone
I’m tempted to go with option 4 for the first μή τις and translate as “…watching over in case anyone is falling behind (or is lacking) in the grace of God” but I can’t give a grammatical reason that justifies my choice. Which is the right option in CGL regarding the first μή τις here, and why? (I need to nail this down before tacking the other two instances of μή τις in this sentence.) Thanks!