[B-Greek] Gen 22:12 LXX

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Oct 22 22:35:34 EDT 2005


Forwarded for Bert de Haan

The last half of Gen 22:12 reads a follows:


>     NUN GAR EGNWN hOTI FOBHi TON QEON SU KAI OUK EFEISW TOU hUIOU  
> SOU TOU
>     AGAPHTOU DI EME.
>     The meaning of this passage is clear more so because I know the  
> passage in
>     English then due to my understanding of Greek.  I don't  
> understand the use
>     of KAI.
>     If KAI here has the sense of 'even', (->you did not even keep  
> your son from
>     me) should there not be some sort of punctuation before SU?    
> KAI is in the
>     wrong place to simply joins the two phrases.
>     It seems natural to read something like, "seeing that you did  
> not spare..."
>     or "because you did not spare..."  I have not seen a use of kai  
> like that in
>     a lexicon.  I don't have BDAG, maybe it is in there.(And  
> George, I can't
>     sell my firstborn to buy BDAG.  She is on to me.)
>     Can someone explain this please?

>     Thank you.
>     Bert de Haan.
>



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