[B-Greek] Luke 4:7
Jonathan Robie
jwrobie at mindspring.com
Thu Jun 14 16:34:09 EDT 2007
Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Iver Larsen wrote:
>
>
>> I would consider the conditional clause in 4:7 (and in 4:3 and 4:9)
>> more salient than the main
>> clause. The previous text has introduced the reward, and Satan has
>> already said that he would give
>> this reward/authority to Jesus. So, the clause "it will be yours"
>> contains no new information, only
>> a rewriting and recapitulation of SOI DWSW THN EXOUSIAN TAUTHN
>> hAPASAN with some emphasis on the
>> fulfilment of the promise. The new and crucial information is found
>> in the condition which is placed
>> before the "apodosis".
>>
>
> Iver,
>
> Yes, I can see your point. If SOI DWSW THN EXOUSIAN TAUTHN hAPASAN is
> already a part of the cognitive framework of the addressee then ESTAI
> SOU PASA isn't new and isn't the most salient. I agree, I think your
> analysis is preferable.
>
I don't live in the world of discourse analysis, and I'm not sure I
follow your methodology here, but ....
If at the end of this exchange, the devil says, "if you bow down and
worship me, then x", then x had better be plenty interesting enough to
be salient, or else it would make no sense to say x at this point in the
dialog. The devil had better offer something rather interesting in exchange!
This may be a summary statement, repeating information from earlier, but
it has to be a statement with punch or the whole exchange falls flat. It
would make no sense, for instance, to translate this with something
decidedly not emphatic:
"If you bow down and worship me, then I'll give you, you know, all that
stuff we talked about earlier ...."
Jonathan
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