[B-Greek] Col 2,5

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Wed May 5 17:24:11 EDT 2004


Carl:

Here's the NET Bible on this:

For though I am absent from you in body, I am present
with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and
the firmness of your faith in Christ. 

"rejoicing to see" was actually what made me ask this
question. The NET translators take these participles,
I think, semantically different. If this cannot be
derived from the Greek, how is it implicit? Better
yet, what translation would you recommend?

Eddie

--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:
> 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)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/



	
		
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