Exegesis:
gunaika egēma ‘I have married a wife,’ i.e. “I have just got married” (New English Bible).
gameō ‘to marry,’ with a man as subject.
kai dia touto ou dunamai elthein ‘and therefore I cannot come.’
Translation:
Another, or, ‘yet another,’ i.e. a third example.
I have married a wife, or ‘I have married,’ since ‘a wife’ is unduly redundant here. Elsewhere ‘to marry’ may be rendered e.g. by, ‘to take a spouse’ (e.g. in Ekari, which, when a woman is the subject, uses, ‘to go-with a spouse’), ‘to take a woman’ (Batak Toba, which says of the woman, ‘to go-home,’ or, ‘to go-home to the village,’ i.e. of her husband); or by an idiomatic phrase, e.g. in Yucateco (lit. ‘to end one’s road,’ i.e. as bachelor), or in Toraja-Sa’dan (lit. ‘to establish-a-fireplace’).
Quoted with permission from Reiling, J. and Swellengrebel, J.L. A Handbook on the Gospel of Luke. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1971. For this and other handbooks for translators see here . Make sure to also consult the Handbook on the Gospel of Mark for parallel or similar verses.
