[B-Greek] Luke 3:9 hHDE ** DE KAI ** hH AXINH PROS THN hRIZAN TWN DENDRWN KEITAI

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 8 16:21:26 EDT 2007


On Jun 8, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> the criteria for determining if we have two speech acts
> should be discourse cohesion between the two sayings.

LUKE 3:8 POIHSATE OUN KARPOUS AXIOUS THS METANOIAS KAI MH ARXHSQE  
LEGEIN EN hEAUTOIS: PATERA ECOMEN TON ABRAAM. LEGW GAR hUMIN hOTI  
DUNATAI hO QEOS EK TWN LIQWN TOUTWN EGEIRAI TEKNA TWi ABRAAM.  9 HDH  
DE KAI hH AXINH PROS THN hRIZAN TWN DENDRWN KEITAI: PAN OUN DENDRON  
MH POIOUN KARPON KALON EKKOPTETAI KAI EIS PUR BALLETAI.

It is certainly possible to see KARPOUS in v.8 as semantically  
related to PAN OUN DENDRON MH POIOUN KARPON KALON EKKOPTETAI in v.9  
so there is some evidence of cohesion. I think after exploring the  
alternative I know would coned that the standard translations  
probably did the right thing here by reading DE KAI as part of the  
speech act.



Elizabeth Kline







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