[B-Greek] ELUPHSE TON KAIN LIAN

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Sep 17 11:22:37 EDT 2005


On Sep 17, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Eddie Mishoe wrote:

>
> ...KAI ELUPHSE TON KAIN LIAN (...and Cain fretted
> exceedingly)
>
> Any reason for the accusative TON?

Yes, there's an understood subject, I would assume: the fact that  
Cain's sacrifice was disregarded. Note that this verb is middle  
LUPEOMAI when it means grieve, suffer pain, but active LUPEW when  
it's transitive causative -- make someone grieve or feel pain. If you  
want more literally to translate the phrase ELUPHSE TON KAIN LIAN,  
I'd make it " ... and it really rubbed Cain the wrong way!"


Carl W. Conrad
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