The seal in Ef 1:13

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Fri Oct 18 08:51:50 EDT 2002


David Roe said:
> .... I offer, if not more than as conversation fodder,
> that the aorist participle PISTEUSANTES is temporally dependent upon the
> time of the main verb, ESFRAGISQHTE. Thus, the *time* that they "were
> sealed" is concurrent with (coincidir) the *time* of the dependent
> participle: the time that they believed.

Let me take up the conversation fodder.
Normally, a concurrent action would be indicated by a present participle
rather than an aorist. In this verse we have two aorist participles, first
AKOUSANTES, then PISTEUSANTES, before the finite aorist verb. I see no
reason (other than someone's theology) why we cannot maintain the normal
rule for aorist participles: First they heard, then they believed, then they
were sealed.

However, I don't think the grammar will tell us anything about how long it
took for one event to follow the other.

Iver Larsen




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