Re: Mt 28:19a POREUQENTES

Paul F. Evans (evans@esn.net)
Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:01:00 -0500

Carl,

You wrote:

>I hasten to add, however,
> that I don't really think you can very easily push these adverbial
> participles into pigeonholes: that's the wonderful flexibility of
> participles and also what forces us to ponder the context in order to
> figure out exactly how they're being used this time. After all that
> adverbial participle may, under different circumstances, represent a
> temporal, a conditional, a causal, an instrumental or perhaps several other
> possible relationships to the main verb.

I think that you hit the nail on the head.  We less experienced in Greek are going to have to learn to give up rigidity for flexibility!  That is harder for us "pigeon-holing" types who want to keep everything tidy.  Language is a messy business!

Paul F. Evans
Pastor
Thunder Swamp Pentecostal Holiness Church
MT. Olive

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