coordinating conjunction which makes the two statements equal. Also, this view would require a conditional protasis (ἐὰν ὀργίζεσθε). Another theory suggests the first imperative is permissive and the second is jussive: “Be angry (because I cannot stop you or you cannot help it), but do not sin.”1 The problem with this view is that it is strange to have two present imperatives joined by a coordinating conjunction with two different senses (permissive and jussive). A further problem with the imperative