Matthew 5:12

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Wed Dec 1 14:18:00 EST 1999


At 08:49 AM 12/1/99 -0600, David A Bielby wrote:

>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...
>
>Is it necessary to translate KAI here as and? Is this akin to
>parallelism? What are the best choices for translating this phrase?

I agree that this makes for funny English. Perhaps an exclamation mark 
would help:

         Rejoice! Be glad! For your reward in heaven is great.

This has a somewhat different feel than the Greek, and is a bit more 
"loosely coupled", but it feels like more natural English to me.

Jonathan



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