Fwd: Re: Aorist never codes an open situation? - to Kimmo

Randall Buth ButhFam at compuserve.com
Mon Dec 18 18:25:04 EST 2000


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>Porter's view ...
He would say that the use of the aorist is 
making the most general statement possible without elaboration--God loved
the 
world--without any information coded in the verb about when it started or 
stopped, or whether it was punctilliar or repeated, or whether it could be 
counted or not.<

I believe you've just described, 
-don't you love it?- 
a simple past tense, "God loved the world".

ERRWSO
Randall Buth



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