τε

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τε

   te

   both
2. sentence🔊 ἐπικουρίας οὖν τυχὼν τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄχρι τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης ἕστηκα μαρτυρόμενος μικρῷ τε καὶ μεγάλῳ οὐδὲν ἐκτὸς λέγων ὧν τε οἱ προφῆται ἐλάλησαν μελλόντων γίνεσθαι καὶ Μωϋσῆς

   e-pi-kou-REE-as oun ty-KHON tês a-PO tou the-OU A-khri tês hê-ME-ras TAU-tês HES-tê-ka mar-ty-RO-me-nos mi-KRÔ te kai me-GA-lô ou-DEN ek-TOS LE-gōn hôn te hoi pro-PHÊ-tai e-LA-lê-san mel-LON-tōn GI-nes-thai kai mō-yü-SÊS

   help therefore having obtained the from the God until the day this I stand testifying to the small both and to the great nothing except saying which both the prophets spoke being about to happen and Moses

Exegesis

The dative pair mikrō te kai megalō {μικρῷ τε καὶ μεγάλῳ | mikrō̂ te kai megalō̂} functions as a dative of advantage or indirect object, marking the full social range of his audience, “to small and great.”

This is followed by a relative clause hōn te hoi prophētai elalēsan mellontōn ginesthai kai Mōysēs {ὧν τε οἱ προφῆται ἐλάλησαν μελλόντων γίνεσθαι καὶ Μωϋσῆς | hōn te hoi prophêtai elálēsan mellóntōn gínesthai kai Mōusēs}, where the genitive relative pronoun hōn connects back to “things,” and mellontōn ginesthai {μελλόντων γίνεσθαι | mellóntōn gínesthai} forms a periphrastic idea of events “about to happen.” The coordination of hoi prophētai and Mōysēs with te…kai emphasizes that both the prophetic corpus and Moses together foretold these events. In translation, the participial constructions are rendered as finite clauses or adverbial phrases (“having obtained help,” “sharing my testimony”) to maintain clarity while preserving the causal and durative relationships, and the dative pair is expressed inclusively (“small and great,” “important and unimportant alike”) to reflect the breadth of Paul’s witness.

Root and etymology

stello🔊 στέλλωsigma–tau–epsilon–lambda–lambda–omega

“to send, dispatch”

• 🔊 ἀπόστολοςapostolosapostle, sent oneRomans 1:1