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

CWestf5155 at aol.com CWestf5155 at aol.com
Tue Dec 19 11:04:03 EST 2000


Dear Randall,

In a message dated 12/18/2000 4:26:31 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
ButhFam at compuserve.com writes:

> Message text written by INTERNET:CWestf5155 at aol.com
>  >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".
>  

Yes exactly....

Ummmmmm...except when the context indicates it is present, 
gnomic/omnitemporal/timeless (as it is in Jn. 3:16) or future!

Cindy Westfall
PhD Student University of Surrey at Roehampton



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