OU + MH + aor. subj.

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jul 15 07:02:48 EDT 1998


At 1:44 PM +0300 7/15/98, Timo Flink wrote:
>Howdy :)
>
>I ran a test in BibleWorks (AGNT2) and it reports 76 hits for "OU MH +
>some aor. subj."
>
>As I'm not a native English speaker, this might be complitely wrong, but
>could that be expressed something like:
>
>"by no means you might do this and that"
>
>Just a thought... Yes I know, sounds like an imperative....

In the original question Zerwick was cited as saying this (OU MH + aorist
subj.) is the strongest possible Greek form of stating the imperative
notion. A Latin equivalent is NE + perfect subjunctive with the sense, like
that of the Greek construction, "Don't ever xxxx ..." or "You are not ever
to xxxx ..." Now archaic English would have put it: "You SHALL not xxxx ..."

Carl W. Conrad
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