The Proleptic Aorist revisited

Harry W. Jones hjbluebird at aol.com
Sat Jun 1 14:10:19 EDT 2002


Dear Mark(Wilson),

After posting the following I realized that when you spoke of the
DC you probably were talking about where in time the present tense center
was located. In other words the present tense center of a particular
passage  could be located in the future. Am I correct Mark?

Wouldn't we then be talking about the present tense center(PTC)?

Best Regards,
Harry Jones

<<< I've been thinking about the theory of the Deictic center but I
don't see how a Deictic center could be proven without showing 
the it is not in the same time slot as a present tense in the
same passage. I don't believe I've seen any evidence that shows
the Deictic as occupying such a different time slot. I hope you 
understand what I'm getting at Mark.

If you remember, I was asking about the time sequecing of NT
Greek verbs in a past post and Carl told me that they don't sequence. This
would mean that the time sequence of the actions of a passage would have
to come from the context, I would think. >>>



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