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by R. Perkins
June 5th, 2015, 12:24 am
Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
Topic: Best online Septuagint?
Replies: 30
Views: 49988

Re: Best online Septuagint?

Okay - So I just purchased the LXX with Kraft/Taylor/Wheeler Morphology and LEH Lexicon from Olive Tree (the Bible software I use). This may seem like an ignorant question, but when I look up a passage in this LXX it doesn't seem to match the chapter-verse(s) of other translations or even the BHS (w...
by R. Perkins
May 28th, 2015, 9:13 pm
Forum: Textbooks
Topic: BDAG, I Tim. 2.12 [and] ἀνήρ?
Replies: 7
Views: 13373

Re: BDAG, I Tim. 2.12 [and] ἀνήρ?

Okay - Many thanks to everyone who posted thus far. Interesting & helpful. It has been through much trial & error over the years that I have learned to read lexicons very carefully - attending to semicolons & periods specifically. The em dash (----) is confusing. Even more confusing is B...
by R. Perkins
May 28th, 2015, 3:25 am
Forum: Textbooks
Topic: BDAG, I Tim. 2.12 [and] ἀνήρ?
Replies: 7
Views: 13373

BDAG, I Tim. 2.12 [and] ἀνήρ?

ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ (Hom. +, common in all the mngs. known to our lit.) a male person 1 an adult human male, man, husband a in contrast to woman man (Pla., Gorg. 514e; X., Hell. 4, 5, 5 et al.) Mt 14:21; 15:38; Mk 6:44; Lk 9:14; J 1:13; Ac 4:4; 8:3, 12; 1 Cor 11:3, 7ff; Hm 5, 2, 2; 6, 2, 7; 12, 2, 1 al....
by R. Perkins
May 28th, 2015, 2:54 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?
Replies: 11
Views: 3161

Re: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?

I was going to suggest that a disadvantage of being an English speaker at this point was that we assume / imply an antecedent action, which is not necessarily assumed in / implied by the Greek tense system. "The work will have been finished" leaves us expecting a "by the time he arri...
by R. Perkins
May 28th, 2015, 2:49 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?
Replies: 11
Views: 3161

Re: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?

Is the ambiguity between an eventive contra resultant - left unexplained in the translation - the cause for confusion for a beginner like myself as to how a past tense verb can be rendered as a future? It will only be a cause for confusion if the beginner thinks the translation "will be bound&...
by R. Perkins
May 26th, 2015, 3:40 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?
Replies: 11
Views: 3161

Re: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?

If we're talking about the meaning of the Greek, I think it just means that at some future time in heaven (presumably the eschaton), the subject will be in a bound and loosed state respectively. As these are result states, presumably the action that produced the result state precedes it, but that's...
by R. Perkins
May 26th, 2015, 3:33 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?
Replies: 11
Views: 3161

Re: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?

I was going to suggest that a disadvantage of being an English speaker at this point was that we assume / imply an antecedent action, which is not necessarily assumed in / implied by the Greek tense system. "The work will have been finished" leaves us expecting a "by the time he arri...
by R. Perkins
May 21st, 2015, 12:27 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?
Replies: 11
Views: 3161

Re: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?

Stephen Carlson wrote:The English "shall have been ..." is not a past tense; it's a future perfect.
Thank you - was wondering if it was kind of like a historical present in reverse (i.e., in the future). The rendering "shall HAVE BEEN" was throwing me off.

Much appreciated.
by R. Perkins
May 21st, 2015, 4:30 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?
Replies: 11
Views: 3161

Future Tense Verbs Translated as Past Tense?

Hello all. Quick question: Just wondering why translations such as the NASB & NET (reputable translations in my opinion) translate the future verb ἔσται as a past tense in Mt. 18.18? I am thinking that the force of the indicative mood is why, but could be mistaken (be merciful to me :oops: ). &q...
by R. Perkins
July 31st, 2013, 1:14 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Personal Pronoun Agreement?
Replies: 9
Views: 7271

Re: Personal Pronoun Agreement?

Thank you for the response. This is just as I suspected. Next, Mounce states that relative pronouns always match their antecedent in number & gender, but I am having a hard time in I Tim. 3.16 with the relative pronoun "hos" or "Theos" in finding its matching antecedent viz ...

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