John 6:29
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Sun Oct 10 16:42:53 EDT 1999
At 03:29 PM 10/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Jn 6:29b
>hINA PISTEUHTE EIS hON APESTEILEN EKEINOS
>
>I'm translating the conjunction and the Present Active Subjunctive
>functionally as 'to believe'.
I would differ and take the phrase as a purpose clause... i.e., "so that you
might believe... etc".
>My questions are: Is there not a continuous
>sense in this phrase...
What do you mean by "continuous sense"?
>and if so, how can we bring that out without being
>awkward in the translation?? Doesn't it seem that the english tends to
>lose that continuous state connotation? How can we adjust for that?
Continuous? Please explain.
>
>Could it be translated "to always believe" or something like this?
No, because it is a subjunctive the element of possibility has to be
included- otherwise it looks like you are merely rendering an indicative.
best,
Jim
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