| 13. Linguistic Exegesis The verse presents a polysyndetic catalogue of commodities marked by the repeated conjunction kai {καί | kaí}, creating a piling-up effect of luxury goods. Items from kinnamomon through probata serve as accusative direct objects of an implied trade verb. A genitive series—hippon, rhedon, somaton—functions partitively, with somaton {σωμάτων | sō-má-tōn} “bodies” referring to human bodies treated as cargo. The final accusative phrase psukhas anthropon {ψυχὰς ἀνθρώπων | psu-khás an-THRŌ-pōn} “souls of people” returns the list to living persons, underscoring the moral shock of dehumanization. English order retains the Greek conjunctions to mirror the emphatic abundance. |