"Continuous, on-going, never ceasing" construct

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 18 10:25:02 EDT 2002


Waldo:

You wrote:

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>What would be the most likely construct a Greek would
>use in statements attempting to express a belief in
>the "forever nature" of something?
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There is no "tense" within Greek that denotes "foreverness."

The answer must lie on the lexical side of the equation, not
the syntactical side.

I have no idea if there is a "construct" that the Greeks
reserved for this very occasion, but here is one that
certainly states exactly what you seem to be looking for:

....EIS TOUS AIWNAS TWN AIWNWN

Whenever this "construct" is used, you can beat that what it
is modifying is doing so to express "foreverness."

My thoughts,

Mark Wilson


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