[B-Greek] Translating Mark 5:7

Dan Gleason dan-bgreek at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 28 19:55:42 EDT 2005


Richard Richmond wrote the following to Dr Conrad about translating the 
idiom:

TI ___ EMOI KAI SOI
"what to me and to you"
The idiom is best translated
"what do we have in common" and parallels the
equivalent phrase in Mark 1:24

TI ___ HMIN  KAI SOI
what to us and to you

In Mk 5:7 the plurality of the demons is
established in a different way. Perhaps to acomadate a
Latin audience who may not have understood the demon
responding with a plural pronoun.

in Mk 1:24 the demon speaks for his kind or class
and what Jesus has in common in both instances is that
he is somehow spirit like them. I believe this to be
the writers intent.

DG: Richard, I think your observation about the parallel wording and intent 
is absolutely excellent.
Looking at the Mk 1:21-28 pericope I think this man was also inhabited with 
multiple demons.
I read that pericope a while back and missed the connection.
Here is the wordplay evidence:
1) The man or the spirit inside of him said "have you come to destroy US?"
2) The man convulsed (implies numerous involuntary movements) as each spirit 
came out of him (even though only one was targeted).
3) The witnesses said "he-commands the unclean spirits."

Dan Gleason

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