[B-Greek] EN MESWi in Revelation
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Mon Apr 7 12:18:50 EDT 2003
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 11:18, Richard Ghilardi wrote:
<snip>
> If I understand you rightly, you would position the participants in this
> scene as follows:
>
> 1) the Throne and the Four Living Creatures taken as a group
> (representing Heaven)
> 2) the Lamb (mediating between Heaven and Earth)
> 3) the Elders (representing Earth)
>
> That all looks perfectly fine to me. What I'm having trouble with is
> putting all this into decent English. The best that I could come up with
> is:
>
> "and I saw between the throne and the four living creatures, on the one
> hand, and the elders, on the other, a lamb standing..."
>
> But this seems intolerably clumsy to me. Can anyone do better?
Hmmmm...I see what you mean. Part of the issue you have to decide is
whether the translation provides data for a person to observe the formal
characteristics of the original or, on the other hand, to provide data
which is communicatively natural and clear. In either case, accuracy of
meaning is intended. I frequently feel the tension between thinking the
formal characteristics of the original need to be there in order to
accurately communicate the original meaning; but, that is only true if
the reader has the skills necessary to interpret the observations he or
she makes (and CAN make, for that matter).
Perhaps:
and I saw on the one side the throne and four living creatures, on
the other, the elders, and in between, a lamb standing...
Wonderfully vivid picture of a resurrected lamb--a slain lamb standing!
> parakal at quetzal.net writes:
> >
> > > Rev 5:6a: KAI EIDON EN MESWI TOU QRONOU KAI TWN TESSARWN ZWiWN
> > > KAI EN MESWi TWN PRESBUTERWN ARNION hESTHKOS...
<snip>
>
> Polycarp66 at aol.com writes:
> >
> > The EN MESWi . . . KAI EN MESWi simply refers to being between the
> > two objects mentioned. It should be understood and translated as
> > "between A and B". This comes from the Hebrew.
<snip>
--
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
"The first one last wins."
"A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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