Luke 10:24 tenses of the infinitives

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Wed Mar 6 21:18:32 EST 2002



In a message dated 3/6/02 7:30:59 PM, united_by_truth at yahoo.com writes:

>Luke 10: 24 says in part 
POLLOI PROFHTAI KAI BASILEIS HQELHSAN IDEIN hA
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>hUMEIS BLEPETE, KAI OUK EIDON, KAI AKOUSAI hA AKOUETE, KAI OUK HKOUSAN
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>Why is IDEIN a present form and AKOUSAI an aorist. They seem to be
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>completely parallel. Is this because IDEIN, though present in form,
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>functions as an aorist?
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first of all IDEIN is what is called a 2nd aorist. Some lexicons list it with 
hORAW, others list it alone an an aorist. So both verbs are aorist which 
seems appropriate in this passage.

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College



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