Grammars, Who Needs them?

Randall Buth ButhFam at compuserve.com
Mon May 21 04:32:24 EDT 2001


CAIRE, Harry,

>In seaching my grammers I have found no evidence that hINA forces
the subjunctive mood into the indicative mood.<

You may have inadvertently reinforced the point that Clay made at the start
of this 
thread, in its name. 
"force" can be taken absolutely or relatively. 
INA expects a verb into the subjunctive. 
The very rare examples of future indicative are not examples of 
"indicative certainty" but rare, abnormal Greek. 

Personally I find grammars very useful, when one wants to get a condensed
listing 
of what might be out there. 

One should probably keep in mind
that many of the forms of aorist subjunctive and future indicative sounded
identical 
in 1st century Greek, so occasional crossing of the boundary, even where a
sound 
distinction could be maintained, is not unreasonable.  is their something 
else eye should no about? 

ERRWSO
Randall Buth





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