Hebrews 2:13 ESOMAI PEPOIQWS

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Thu Aug 20 09:18:21 EDT 1998


At 20:21 19/08/98 -0400, you wrote:
>How should I understand this:
>
>Hebr 2:13 EGW ESOMAI PEPOIQWS EP AUTWi
>
>The use of tenses is confusing me...

Jonathan:

I don't know if this helps but  Perschbacher's " N.T Greek Syntax"  (
Chicago Moody Press 1995 ) lists Hb. 2:13 as 
"perfect with present sense" = "I will trust in him"  [ p.295 ]

On this page,  under the rubric "Periphrastic future"  he states:

"The future forms of EIMI  join with an anarthrous participle, either
present or perfect, and give emphasis to the present progressive action, or
to the  perfect complete action "

Under (a) ---  'future with present participle' he lists as examples:
Lk 1:20;  21:24
Mk. 13:12,25
Under (b) --  'future with perfect partciple only Hb. 2:13

Regards

Maurice


Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie





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