[B-Greek] Luke 5:1 Infinitive of purpose introduced by KAI
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Thu Jun 28 11:34:10 EDT 2007
Dear Carl,
> On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> The second infinitive clause KAI AKOUEIN TON LOGON TOU QEOU could be
> understood as a statement of purpose and not a second argument for EN
> TWi.
>> The most lucid is Zerwick:1963 #455gamma who
>> cites Lk5:1 as an example.
Here is Zerwick's paragraph:
455. b) the "neutral" use of simple KAI for:
...
GAMMA) "so that" final or consecutive, e.g. Mt 5:15 "they light a candle and
set it...on a candlestick KAI it lights all" (Vulgate: "ut luceat"); Lk 5:1;
24:26. --Mt 8:25 "and he began to see, and was cured KAI saw everything
clearly" (Vulgate "ita ut clare videret"); Lk 11:44; Rom. 11:35.
[end Zerwick quote, from p. 153 of Biblical Greek.]
My feeling is that KAI appears to function so closely to how English "and"
does in such situations that one could make the same comment about English
"and": that it is used where the material behind it is clearly understood to
be the result in relation to the material in front of it.
"I gave the mirror a quick rub with my sleeve, AND it cleared right up."
On the other hand, of all these examples, Rom. 11:35 seems to me the
clearest one in which it would simply not sound quite right to use "and" in
English.
Webb Mealy
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