[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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