Why an instantaneous imperfect in Mark 8:24?

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Sat Jun 26 22:47:33 EDT 1999


Daniel wrote about the following verse:

> > KAI ANABLEYAS ELEGEN: BLEPW TOUS ANQROPOUS hOTI hWS DENDRA hORW
> > PERIPATOUNTAS.
> >

[Daniel]

> >     BTW, the hOTI seems to me not to be the causal particle, here, but the relative
> pronoun "which."  
... The causal idea
> does not seem to offer any explanation for the first verbal clause: "I see men,
> because I perceive them like walking trees" doesn't appear to make sense. However,
> "I see men, which I perceive like walking trees" is certainly intelligible.


[Moon]
Are there other instances where hOTI is used as the relative pronoun "that 
(which)"? I would take the hOTI clause  as a sort of noun clause, which
defines what the person is seeing. So I would have:

I see men that I perceive [them] walking like trees.

Here I take the particiciple as predicative not as attributive, following
Carl's well argued thesis.

Moon-Ryul Jung
Assistant Professor
Soongsil University
Seoul, Korea



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