Matthew 6:12
Joe A. Friberg
JoeFriberg at email.msn.com
Tue Sep 21 16:13:38 EDT 1999
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 5:37 AM
> I'm curious here; I haven't checked the evidence from the lexica for the
> forms as yet, but I'm wondering: Is AFHKAMEN to be considered perfect
tense
> or aorist? Or is this one of those relatively common verbs whose
> morphological idiosyncracies seems to promote the fusion of the perfect
and
> aorist tenses? Here's what the Perseus web LSJ offers, but I'd want to
> check BAGD when I get to my office:
You are correct, all the "lexica" (that I've checked--including BAGD) list
this form as aorist! No Active perfect forms are given for this verb.
Nevertheless--and this I ask not to defend my initial blooper--when the
perfect form is wanting, what form takes over the meanings usually carried
by the perfect? The aorist seems a likely candidate (could the present?).
Glancing through Mt, there are several Active Indicative aorist forms, some
found in straight narrative where the aorist sense is expected, but others
which are usually translated as though they were perfects: Mt 19.27,29,
23.23, and perhaps others.
Joe Friberg
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