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by R. Perkins
April 28th, 2016, 3:01 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
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Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

Not the least of the problems in this thread (and I am convinced that this thread does not belong in any Beginners Forum) is that the key verb of the participle in question is ὑπάρχειν. It's well worth a long look at the entries for this verb in both BDAG and LSJ. However close it may seem to be to...
by R. Perkins
April 27th, 2016, 2:57 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

Not the least of the problems in this thread (and I am convinced that this thread does not belong in any Beginners Forum) is that the key verb of the participle in question is ὑπάρχειν. It's well worth a long look at the entries for this verb in both BDAG and LSJ. However close it may seem to be to...
by R. Perkins
April 27th, 2016, 2:36 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

My (elementary) understanding is that when doing exegesis-proper, we should search for the same words & forms under consideration in the current (1) chapter, (2) book, (3) author, (4) testament (OT or NT), (5) LXX, (6) papyri, (7) ECF, etc. Yes, I should have probably pointed you that direction...
by R. Perkins
April 26th, 2016, 3:30 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

My own take on the passage about which you ask is that the participle ὑπάρχων refers to the status of the subject at the time of the conclusion drawn as referred to in ἡγήσατο is that you are interpreting it rightly: he was formally divine at the time that he judged as he judged. I think you got it...
by R. Perkins
April 21st, 2016, 11:29 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

Even in the indicative, there is not such a correspondence between the Greek aorist indicative and the English simple past tense, to make an assumption like that. The aorist form ἡγήσατο has to be interpreted in the situation that it is used in. The use of the aorist may be saying "past time ....
by R. Perkins
April 21st, 2016, 11:17 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

As a grammatical category, tense only exists in the indicative. If my understanding here is correct, the participle ὑπάρχων would derive it's "time-ness" from the aorist ἡγήσατο, indicating simple past time (i.e., to the writing of Paul's letter to the Philippians). Even in the indicative...
by R. Perkins
April 21st, 2016, 10:53 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

It's not quite clear what the question here is; it looks like you've answered it yourself; it's sort of like you want us to check over your homework assignment before you hand it in. It will very likely be accepted. :) My apologies. No homework assignment (not currently taking classes) - was just w...
by R. Perkins
April 21st, 2016, 10:36 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

What throws me off is, if the participles do not posses inherent "time-ness" then why do they even possess tense (as in the participle charts)? That is, if the participle receives its time of action externally - why does it have tense? The labels of participles as "present" and ...
by R. Perkins
April 21st, 2016, 2:47 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Re: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

It's not quite clear what the question here is; it looks like you've answered it yourself; it's sort of like you want us to check over your homework assignment before you hand it in. It will very likely be accepted. :) My apologies. No homework assignment (not currently taking classes) - was just w...
by R. Perkins
April 20th, 2016, 2:12 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?
Replies: 24
Views: 6132

Present Participial ὑπάρχων of Phil. 2.6?

(Phil. 2.6; NA28): ὃς ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ, It's my understanding that this present participle receives it's "time-ness" from that of the main verb. That is, participles are kind of like someone who never wears a watch & is always asking others &q...

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