The most normal construction using TE is precisely the one you find here in
Acts 1:8. TE follows the first word of its clause (just like DE, GAR, and
several other so-called "postpositive" particles in Greek) and indicates
that this word-group as a whole will be linked with one or more other
word-groups indicated by an initial KAI. So here we have three word-groups
indicated:
EN *TE* IEROUSALHM
*KAI* PASHi THi IOUDAIAi KAI SAMAREIAi
*KAI* hEWS ESXATOU THS GHS
Potentially confusing here is the fact that IOUDAIAi and SAMAREIAi are also
linked by KAI, so that one who didn't know better might suppose that there
are actually FOUR different areas for evangelization. But that possibility
is obviated by the facts that (a) "Judea and Samaria" constituted a
familiar geographical unity dating from the Assyrian settlement of aliens
in the territory of the earlier northern kingdom o Israel, and (b) PASHi
THi clearly governs both proper nouns: "the whole of Judea and Samaria."
The most common linkage is of two elements into a pair, as TAUTA TE KAI
EKEINA, "these things and those things" or more normal English, "this and
that." In classical Attic there are a couple celebrated examples: the
Athenian phrase for "gentleman" (=3Daristocrat) is KALOS TE KAI AGAQOS,
loosely "graceful as well as competent"; the second is Pericles' boast
about the Athenian life-style, FILOSOFOUMEN TE KAI FILOKALOUMEN, "we have a
passion for learning as well as for beauty." Occasionally you may find a
variant that uses TE ... TE two or more times, but this is more common in
poetry.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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