[B-Greek] Luke 6:27: ALLA at the beginning of a paragraph?

webb at selftest.net webb at selftest.net
Tue Jul 25 13:59:20 EDT 2006


Apologies for the blank message just sent--a slip of the hand.

Luke 6:27 has

ALLA hUMIN LEGO TOIS AKOUOUSIN, AGAPATE TOUS ECQROUS hUMWN

I've attempted to capture the force of ALLA by rendering:

But I want to say something totally different to you listeners: Love your
enemies.

I can't tell if Jesus (as Luke presents him in this discourse) means to
create a strong contrast with the people-pleasing situation of the previous
woe (when everybody speaks well of you, similar to the
you-scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours philosophy that he is about to
critique in vv. 32-33), or whether the ALLA starts out a new thought and
implies that he is contradicting what he expects their normal world-view
is. Or is it a third thing? How is ALLA used in didactic discourse in the
Koine?

Webb Mealy

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