Matthew 5:12

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Dec 1 19:08:28 EST 1999


At 6:08 PM -0600 12/1/99, Steven Craig Miller wrote:
>Brian Swedburg wrote:
>
><<  What about a hendiadys?  Using the two words connected by the 'kai' to
>refer to one thing, ie... "gladly rejoice!" >>
>
>All the examples of hendiadys in BDF and Smyth are those of substantives
>connected by KAI, are there (other) examples of hendiadys with Greek verbs?
>I also noticed that of the six examples of hendiadys quoted in BDF
>(442.16), the NRSV only accepted one of them as a hendiadys (at Acts 23:6).
>And C. K. Barrett, in his commentary on Acts, comments on Acts 23:6 saying:
>"The line of argument is not greatly altered if 'hope' and 'resurrection'
>are distinguished."
>
>Does an hendiadys merely mark a non-literal translation? Or is hendiadys a
>real grammatical phenomenon of the Greek language? Or is it perhaps a
>little of both?

I've always thought of hendiadys as a rhetorical device, a figure of
speech, a matter of style rather than a distinctive grammatical phenomenon
of any one language (I learned it in Latin from the opening line of the
Aeneid: ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO).


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