Phil. 2:10 KAMYH=should bow or will bow?

B. D. Colt babc at ix.netcom.com
Fri May 18 19:16:16 EDT 2001


On 17 May 01, at 19:28, Randall M. Tidmore wrote:
> 
> Another text you might consider is 1 Corinthians 11:26b:
> 
> AXRI hOU ELQHi (I hope I managed to transliterate that correctly.)
> 
> In English usually this is translated, "...until He comes." We would
> not expect a subjunctive here in English, but in the Greek (and
> Spanish) it is. In Spanish it is required by the word for "until."

But note that in the KJV we read "till he come."  Hardly anyone (not 
even I) would say that in modern English.  The English subjunctive is 
not quite dead yet, and some of us are brought up short when in 
English books we read something like "He proposed that she did it."  I 
mentally change "did" to "do", but then, I'm old fashioned.  I think 
most Americans would say 'should do."


Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc at ix.netcom.com
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco



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