[B-Greek] John 18:24 APESTEILEN

bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Mon Apr 21 22:30:53 EDT 2003


  Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
    
> First the verb APESTEILEN is aorist. The perfect is APESTALKEN and thus the 
> pluperfect built on the same stem would be APESTALKEIN (first person-third = 
> -LEI).
> The problems of order in this part of John are notorious. Since this type of 
> discussion is independent of the Greek, it is best to look in any critical 
> commentary.
> 
> Carlton Winbery
> Louisiana College
 
  I understood that APESTEILEN is aorist, that's why I questioned the pluperfect translation. I gather from you response that it not a good translation but an attempt to make sense of the chronological order. Thank you for your reply.
Bert de Haan.  



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