Mt. 9.6, EIDHTE
Tracey Ray Lane
traceylane at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 25 15:57:47 EDT 2002
Greetings, all,
How are we to accurately parse the term EIDHTE, when there seems to be
some difference of opinion as to whether the term is Perfect or Aorist --
perfect from OIDA, and aorist from EIDON? And is it so important that we
make the distinction?
I understand that there is a close relationship between seeing and
knowing, and that OIDA is in fact a perfect of the stem EID- (Latin
video). Why would then we not go straight from EIDHTE to EIDON, since
apparently the aorist of ORAW is built off of the EID- stem?
I realize that this quite possibly does not make much sense, but I
initially identified the term EIDHTE as being aorist, but many of the
'helps' state that it is perfect, and so became a bit confused.
Sufficiently muddied?
Tracey R. Lane
Assistant Librarian
The King's College and Seminary
14800 Sherman Way
Van Nuys, CA 91405
(818) 779-8431
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