Matthew 5:12
Brian Swedburg
brian at discoveryhills.org
Wed Dec 1 15:47:06 EST 1999
Gretings,
What about a hendiadys? Using the two words connected by the 'kai' to refer to
one thing, ie... gladly rejoice!
Brian
Western Sem Student
Jonathan Robie wrote:
> 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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