[B-Greek] Use of KAI and pronouns

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Feb 27 11:54:07 EST 2006


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On Feb 27, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Luke Hartman wrote:

> Fellow quasi-scholars (and real scholars if you are one),
>
> I was reading Gal. 1:3 and was curious about the use of the pronoun
> hHMWN.
>
> The text in question: CHARIS hUMIN KAI EIRHNH APO QEOU PATROS hHMWN
> KAI KURIOU IHSOU CRISTOU TOU DONTOS...		
>
> Does it go with QEOU or QEOU and IHSOU CRISTOU? I guess I am curious
> how the KAI works in this instance. Does the KAI 'join' the pronoun
> with both words because they are in the same case?  (though as I am
> writing this I see the same thing in the first part of the sentence
> with hUMIN, so perhaps I've answered my question...).

hUMWN goes only with PATROS; the KAI might link any co-ordinated  
phrases, whether nominal or verbal. In this instance it links two  
distinct genitive expressions dependent upon the preposition APO.

Carl W. Conrad
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