EKTOS EI MH

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Oct 9 23:08:48 EDT 2000


At 9:50 AM -0700 10/9/00, Dmitriy Reznik wrote:
>Dear friends:
>
>I have a question concerning 1Cor 14:5:
>
>TELW DE PANTAS hUMAS LALEIN GLOSSAIS, MALLON DE hINA PROFHTEUHTE, MEIZWN
>DE hO PROFHTEUWN H hO LALWN GLWSSAIS, EKTOS EI MH DIERMHNEUHi . . .
>In this phrase EKTOS EI MH is usually translated as "unless [he
>interprets]". If I understand correctly, to say "unless" EI MH would be
>enough, and EKTOS has here the same meaning. Is it redundancy, or having
>both EKTOS and EI MH plays some role here?

No, I think it really is a case of redundancy, not uncommon in Hellenistic
Greek; seems rather colloquial: "'ceptin' unless ..."

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