NUN plus Aorist

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Mon Oct 28 15:01:45 EST 2002


At 04:04 PM 10/28/2002 +0000, Mark Wilson wrote:

>Preliminary conclusion then: the NUN plus Aorist emphasizes the
>long anticipation and final occurrence of an event.

This seems plausible, and accounts well for the examples you quoted, but 
what about the following:

NUN EZHTOUN SE LIQASSI hOI IOUDAIOI
John 11:8

With your interpretation, does this mean something like: "the Jews have 
FINALLY sought to stone you, are you going there again?"

With Mari's, I think it means "the Jews were just trying to stone you, are 
you going there again?"

Now....can we find a litmus example that objectively tells us which 
interpretation is correct?

Jonathan




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