Kai

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jul 23 18:09:36 EDT 1998


At 5:23 PM -0400 7/23/98, Jim West wrote:
>Well, apparently I have once again adopted a minority view.  Who woulda
>guessed? :-)
>
>Kai, as used in the "scribes of the Pharisees" clause I take as = "also".
>
>Thus, the phrase can be translated, "also the scribes of the pharisees".
>Now, admittedly, this is a poor english rendering and does not do justice to
>the intention of the Greek.  That is why I left it out (as when we leave out
>the hOTI recitative).
>
>In Greek it makes great sense to say "also the scribes of the Pharisees..."
>etc.  Sadly, English is not as versatile, and pictureseque.
>
>(but I could be wrong.......)   :-)

Little problem of word-order here: KAI adverbial meaning "also" normally
precedes immediately the word it governs. That would be awkward here, I
think.

Carl W. Conrad
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