[B-Greek] Col 2,5
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed May 5 15:18:58 EDT 2004
At 10:02 AM -0700 5/5/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>EI GE KAI THi SARKI APEIMI ALLA TWi PNEUMATI SUN hUMIN
>EIMI CAIRWN KAI BLEPWN hUMWN THN TAXIN KAI TO STEREWMA
>THS EIS CRISTON PISTEWS hUMWN
>
>What are the options for understanding EIMI CAIRWN KAI
>BLEPWN? Is it acceptable to understand one participle
>functioning differently (semantically) than the other
>even though they are connected by KAI?
Why would you want to do that? Both CAIRWN and BLEPWN ... THN TAXIN KAI TO
STEREWMA indicate what the writer is doing while/when he is with his
correspondents in spirit. Perhaps I don't understand the question; do you
perhaps mean that the sense may be, "rejoicing to see ..."? I think that
may well be implicit but you can't derive it directly from the Greek.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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