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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