From: Garland H. Shinn (ghshinn@home.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 01:24:02 EST
One man's hendiadys is another man's distinct theology.
Garland
Garland Shinn
Professor of Biblical Languages & Theology
Southern California Bible College & Seminary
El Cajon, CA
Brian Swedburg wrote:
>
> Gretings,
> What about a hendiadys? Using the two words connected by the
> 'kai' to refer to one thing, ie... gladly rejoice!
>
> Brian
> Western Sem Student
>
> Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
> > At 08:49 AM 12/1/99 -0600, David A Bielby wrote:
> >
> > >I'm curious about the construction of XAIRETE KAI AGALLIASQE in
> > Matthew
> > >5:12. To my American English ear this sounds funny in translated
> > >as....rejoice and be exceedingly glad...
> > >
> > >Is it necessary to translate KAI here as and? Is this akin to
> > >parallelism? What are the best choices for translating this phrase?
> >
> > I agree that this makes for funny English. Perhaps an exclamation
> > mark
> > would help:
> >
> > Rejoice! Be glad! For your reward in heaven is great.
> >
> > This has a somewhat different feel than the Greek, and is a bit more
> >
> > "loosely coupled", but it feels like more natural English to me.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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