In a message dated 11/17/1998 1:12:30 PM, jwest at Highland.Net wrote: <<No. All it indicates is that the author used the present tense here (as in many other places) simply for the sake of vivid narration.>> The question arises, does the historical present occur with EIMI? Se Wallace, Exegetical Syntax, 530-31 on this. Charles Powell DTS