From: Brian Swedburg (brian@discoveryhills.org)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 15:47:06 EST
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Gretings,
<br> What about a hendiadys? Using the two words
connected by the 'kai' to refer to one thing, ie... gladly rejoice!
<p>Brian
<br>Western Sem Student
<p>J<i>onathan Robie wrote:</i>
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><i>At 08:49 AM 12/1/99 -0600, David A Bielby wrote:</i><i></i>
<p><i>>I'm curious about the construction of XAIRETE KAI AGALLIASQE in
Matthew</i>
<br><i>>5:12. To my American English ear this sounds funny in translated</i>
<br><i>>as....rejoice and be exceedingly glad...</i>
<br><i>></i>
<br><i>>Is it necessary to translate KAI here as and? Is this akin to</i>
<br><i>>parallelism? What are the best choices for translating this phrase?</i><i></i>
<p><i>I agree that this makes for funny English. Perhaps an exclamation
mark</i>
<br><i>would help:</i><i></i>
<p><i> Rejoice! Be glad!
For your reward in heaven is great.</i><i></i>
<p><i>This has a somewhat different feel than the Greek, and is a bit more</i>
<br><i>"loosely coupled", but it feels like more natural English to me.</i><i></i>
<p><i>Jonathan</i>
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