[B-Greek] Acts 16,31 follow up
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Apr 1 13:51:13 EST 2004
At 5:17 AM -0800 4/1/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>I have a follow up question on this:
>
>KAI SWQHSHi SU KAI hO OIKOS SOU
>
>Can SU be understood in two different ways here?
>
>1. KAI SWQHSHi SU, KAI hO OIKOS SOU
>
>2. KAI SWQHSHi, SU KAI hO OIKOS SOU
>
>And if so, would these be separately translated:
>
>1. and you yourself will be saved, and your household
>
>2. and you will be saved, (both) you and your
>household
I won't be dogmatic about this, but I honestly believe only #2 above is
plausible in the context. I don't really believe that SU would have been
appended to SWQHSHi if it were not part of a larger phrase, SU KAI hO OIKOS
SOU; moreover, I can't see KAI hO OIKOS SOU as an independent phrase
following a pause without some explicit predicate of its own.
>And I wonder if there is an unexpressed/omitted possible construct, like:
>
>KAI SWQHSHi SU, KAI hO OIKOS SOU (SWQHSETAI or
>SWQHSONTAI)
Not, I think with the comma implying a pause before the KAI hO OIKOS SOU;
on the other hand I do think SWQHSETAI may be, probably IS implicit from
the SWQHSHi.
Or so I think.
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Carl W. Conrad
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