Galatians 2:1

Steven Lo Vullo doulos at merr.com
Thu Nov 22 22:23:12 EST 2001



On Thursday, November 22, 2001, at 06:09  PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> But I think that repeated visits would have required an imperfect tense
> rather than an aorist, something like ANEBAINON rather than ANEBHN.

As I pondered further Keith's question as to how Paul could have 
expressed repeated visits during a fourteen year period, I thought 
either the imperfect (ANEBAINON) or the aorist (ANEBHN) modified by EPI 
governing the accusative or genitive temporal noun as in Acts 13.31; 
16.18; 27.20; Heb 1.2; 11.30; 2 Pet 3.3  would be one way to express 
time during which repeated actions took place. Do you think this is 
sound? Louw-Nida 67.136 says EPI may be a marker "of the extent of time 
within a unit — 'during, in the course of, within, for'" and gives Acts 
13.31 as an example.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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