Luke 22:44

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Tue Mar 28 02:14:10 EST 2000


To: Dave Scarpino,

<< In this text can one translate:
"hO hIDRWS AUTOU hWSEI QROMBOI hAIMATOS..."
as "the drops of his sweat became like as blood..." ? >>

Literally one might translated: "his sweat was/became like drops of blood" 
(or perhaps QROMBOI hAIMATOS means "clots of blood").

By moving "drops of" to before "his sweat" you are paraphrasing the text, 
since there is noway one could grammatically take hIDRWS as modifying 
QROMBOI. Off hand, I seen nothing wrong with paraphrasing the text in this 
manner, since sweat often naturally forms drops. Indeed, the point of the 
text was that the Lukan Jesus was sweating profusely. As for "as like," I 
assume you meant to write "as/like," since "as like" is not grammatical.

Unfortunately, a literal translation might give the mistaken impression 
that the Lukan Jesus was sweating drops of blood. So although KATABAINONTES 
EPI THN GHN clearly modifies QROMBOI, it might make more sense to translate 
something along these lines: "his sweat fell to the ground like falling 
drops (or clots) of blood."

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com




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