[B-Greek] Luke 3:18: POLLA MEN OUN KAI hETERA
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Jun 10 08:42:34 EDT 2007
No, I think that in this instance the KAI has the sense "also," "in
addition." In days or yore, I have heard this usage called
"ascensive." Don't you just hate it when people invent new names for
something you thought you already understood?
Luke 3:18 Πολλὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἕτερα
παρακαλῶν εὐηγγελίζετο τὸν λαόν.
POLLA MEN OUN KAI hETERA PARAKALWN EUHGGELIZETO TON LAON.
"So he proclaimed the good news to the people with (these)
exhortations and also many others."
There's a classical idiomatic usage that I haven't seen in NT Koine:
a form of ALLOS or ALLWS is followed by a TE KAI and some expression
which is really the primary point of emphasis, e.g. ALLOI TE KAI
hOUTOS, lit. "others and also this one" but meaning "especially this
one." The adverbial usage is especially common: ALLWS TE KAI DIA TON
FQONON, lit. "for other reasons and also because of jealousy" but
meaning "especially because of jealousy."
On Jun 10, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> Luke 3:18 POLLA MEN OUN KAI hETERA
>
> Luke 3:18 Πολλὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἕτερα
>
> Is this a fixed expression, like "many and sundry" in older
> English? Is
> it used elsewhere?
>
> Jonathan
>
> (Who needs to get himself a way of searching at least the New
> Testament
> like he used to ....)
>
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