The seal in Ef 1:13
waldo slusher
waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 18 11:13:49 EDT 2002
Iver said:
> 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.
I think he is exactly correct here. I would add also
that whenever these 3 events occurred, they were ALL
in the past. And that ESFRAGISQHTE is second person
plural, this would say that ALL Ephesians had been
sealed at that time.
I personally think that the active voices of the
verbals represent human acts, and that upon believing,
all had themselves sealed (middle with active sense).
Then, the only temporal statement that can be made is
that ALL Ephesians WERE in a state of being sealed
when Paul wrote this. That all WERE sealed would imply
a close connection with hearing/believing.
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Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AL
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