[B-Greek] John 18:24 APESTEILEN
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 22 05:19:17 EDT 2003
At 10:30 PM -0400 4/21/03, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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.
I would just add to this that there's nothing wrong with translating an
aorist as a pluperfect in the right context, i.e., where there's clearly a
reference point in the past to which the happening indicated by the aorist
verb is anterior. But more often it is the aorist circumstantial participle
that will be conveyed by an English pluperfect.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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