John 9.41
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Dec 26 07:05:52 EST 2001
At 7:04 PM -0800 12/25/01, Alan B. Thomas wrote:
>EIPEN AUTOIS hO IHSOUS EI TUFLOI HTE
>OUK AN EICETE hAMARTIAN
>NUN DE LEGETE hOTI BLEPOMEN
>hH hAMARTIA hUMWN MENEI
>
>Overlooking the handy accent marks in the GNT,
>would anyone object to identifying MENEI as
>future tense?
Granted that MENEI, where there's no MS evidence for accenting, could be
EITHER a present indicative 3d sg. OR a future indicative 3d sg., I don't
see any COMPELLING reason in the context to identify it as one rather than
the other.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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