[B-Greek] hWSPER and KAI GAR in 1 Cor 8.5

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Thu Apr 17 02:33:36 EDT 2003


Greetings all:

1 Cor 8.5 KAI GAR EIPER EISIN LEGOMENOI QEOI EITE EN OURANWi EITE EPI 
GHS, hWSPER EISIN QEOI POLLOI KAI KURIOI POLLOI

Many translations treat the comparative clause marked by hWSPER as 
parenthetical or interjectional. Is this indeed the case? Or is this 
comparative clause straightforwardly subordinate to EISIN in the 
preceding conditional clause? If parenthetical/interjectional, can 
anyone think of any other examples of hWSPER used in the same way?

Also, should KAI GAR be construed strictly with the conditional clause 
marked by EIPER (making EIPER even more emphatic) or with the sentence 
as a whole, both the protasis and the apodosis, even though the 
apodosis is introduce by the coordinate adversative conjunction ALL'? 
TIA
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI



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