Conditional Imperatives

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Sat Mar 3 08:25:43 EST 2001


Dear Alan,

You wrote:

>Has anyone done studies on the Conditional Imperative
>to the extent
>that they might offer a more workable gloss (glosses)
>than
>the one suggested by Wallace?
>
>For example:
>
>Matt 7.7
>AITEITE KAI DOQHSETAI hUMIN
>
>Here, Wallace suggests (pg. 490 GGBB) that the idea
>is:
>
>"If you ask (and you should), then..."
>
>However, the next two examples do not seem to fit this
>added gloss:
>
>Matt 8.8
>MONON EIPE LOGWi KAI IAQHSETAI hO PAIS MOU
>
>"Just say the word, then..."
>[Just say the word (and you should)??]

Dan only intended that you add the idea "and you should" to the particular
example he gave in Matt 7:7. He was not extending it as a general rule. The
phrase was in parentheses. The main idea is "if you ask, then . . . ."

			Yours,
			Harold Holmyard





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