Matthew 5:12

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Wed Dec 1 13:58:48 EST 1999


To: David A Bielby,

<< I'm curious about the construction of XAIRETE KAI AGALLIASQE in Matthew 
5:12.  To my American English ear this sounds funny in translated 
as....rejoice and be exceedingly glad... >>

One can simplify it, as the NRSV does, and say "rejoice and be glad", that 
would be fairly straightforward and literal, yet idiomatic English.

<< Is it necessary to translate KAI here as and? >>

What else?

<< Is this akin to parallelism? >>

Yes.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com

 From Luther's Large Catechism: "Why, do you think, is the world now so 
full of unfaithfulness, shame, misery, and murder? It is because everyone 
wishes to be his or her own master, be free from all authority, care 
nothing for anyone, and do whatever he or she pleases. So God punishes one 
knave by means of another" (BoC 386.154).




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