How to recognize hendiadys?
Jonathan Robie
jonathan.robie at sagus.com
Sat Jun 19 20:16:07 EDT 1999
Let me throw another candidate hendiasys into the pot here, since I'm
puzzling over this right now. One commentary suggests that in Genesis 2:16,
"the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" is a hendiasys. Is this
likely? I do not know Hebrew. In the LXX, the phrase is:
Gen 2:16 ... APO DE TOU XULOU TOU GINWSKEIN KALON KAI PONHRON OU FAGESQE AP
AUTOU
Could this be a hendiasys where KALON KAI PONHRON means something like
"pleasurable evil" or "attractive evil"?
Jonathan
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