NUN plus Aorist
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Oct 28 15:46:43 EST 2002
At 3:01 PM -0500 10/28/02, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>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 LIQASAI 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?
But EZHTOUN is imperfect; I thought we were talking about NUN w/ aorist.
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Carl W. Conrad
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