John's use of APOSTELLW and PEMPW
Mark DelCogliano
cassian at dellepro.com
Mon Aug 5 00:42:33 EDT 2002
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> John uses APOSTELLW in the aorist and perfect indicative active
> and the perfect participle passive, whereas he uses PEMPW in the
> present, the future, and the aorist active participle. The
> difference is not one of meaning but of John's consistent choice
> of certain parts only of each of these verbs.
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I may be going in the wrong direction here but from this brief footnote it
sounds (to me) as if the commentator sees in the author of John a mental,
semantic merging of APOSTELLW and PEMPW with the result that he (that is,
the author of John) thinks of them as one 'verb' whose principal parts are
based on different verbal roots, much like ESTHIW (*ED & *PHAG) or LEGW
(*LEG, *WER, & *WEP). If that is the case, then the choice of APOSTELLW or
PEMPW in such and such a tense would seem to have (mutatis mutandis) all the
significance that a choice between, say, LEGW or EIPON has. I admit this
analogy is not watertight, but wanted to toss out the idea, for what it's
worth, which may not be much.
Mark DelCogliano
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