KATA KAIRON

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Mon Feb 7 15:21:40 EST 2000


To: Bart Ehrman,

<< In 1 Clement 24:2 we read: IDWMEN AGAPHTOI THN KATA KAIRON GINOMENHN 
ANASTASIN, "We should consider, beloved, the resurrection that happens KATA 
KAIRON." What do you think of rendering it "...the resurrection that 
happens all the time," instead of something like "at the right time" or "at 
the right season" or the like? >>

KATA with the accusative is often used distributively, for example KAT' 
ETOS can mean "year by year" or "yearly" and KAQ' hHMERAN can mean "day by 
day" or "daily" so it doesn't seem to be much of a stretch to take KATA 
KAIRON to mean "season by season," "every season," or some such.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
FWIW: I'm neither a clergy-person, nor an academic (and I have no post-grad 
degrees).




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