Re: Acts 2:42

From: Harold R. Holmyard III (hholmyard@ont.com)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 10:07:56 EDT


Roger Hutchinson wrote;

>Acts 2:42 reads--
>
>HSAN DE PROSKARTEROUNTES THi DIDAXHi TWN APOSTOLWN KAI THi KOINWNIA, [KAI?]
>THi KLASEI TOU ARTOU KAI TAIS PROSEUXAIS.
>
>3. KAI is left out before THi KLASEI TOU ARTOU. Does this make the sentence
>structure awkward?
>>
Roger, I see no awkwardness, because in English we use pairs of pairs. We
might write: "July fourth is a day of fireworks and frisbees, of flags and
festivities. The two conjunctions "and" forms two pairs of items which then
naturally link with one another.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard

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