Re: Chiasm in Matt7:6
Mary L B Pendergraft (pender@wfu.edu)
Tue, 19 May 1998 17:27:19 -0400
At 01:39 PM 5/19/98 +0000, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>Steven Cox wrote:
>>
>> In 1914 ATR cited Matt7:6 as an example of chiasm.
>> Likewise TCV NCV TEV recognise an ab/ba structure.
>> But NIV NKJV NASB RVR do not. ...on what grounds?
>
>Generally speaking English translations cannot be relied upon to represent
the
>structure of the Greek text.
>
>I took a look at Matt 7:6 and it did seem to have a hint of chiasm but the
>last element in the ab/ba structure does not really correspond the the first.
>The actions of the third and forth elements are both performed by the pigs
>(Meyer, Alford, Hendrikson . . .).
>
I suspect that Robinson took the trampling to belong to the pigs and the
turning-and-rending to belong to the dogs, and under that reading the
order is chiastic.
Mary
Mary Pendergraft
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109-7343
336-758-5331 (NOTE: this is a new number) pender@wfu.edu