Adverbial aorist participles

Rodney J. Decker rdecker at bbc.edu
Thu Oct 1 09:56:45 EDT 1998


>reply).  What are your opinions about the occurrence of adverbial 
>aorist participles of subsequent action?  To put it another way, are 
>there adverbial aorist participles (particularly in the New 
>Testament) which describe action that takes place after the action of 
>the main verb?  I did a research paper about this in a graduate 

If there are, there aren't many. Two possibilities are Luke 1:9 and Acts
23:35. Porter does consider this question; if you haven't done so yet, you
might check his tome on verbal aspect (pp.385-87) where he cites about 20
extra-biblical examples and a dozen from the NT. (There are none in Mark
where I've done most of my work on such matters.)

Rod

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