[B-Greek] Luke 6:42 partial
Timothy Gaden
tgaden at netspace.net.au
Sat Jun 21 23:38:48 EDT 2003
We are dealing here with two imperatives, both aorist, one bog-standard and
the second "hortatory" (i.e. "let me...").
Porter, Idioms of the Greek NT, comments "the singular form of the hortatory
subjunctive is uncommon, and usually follows an imperative, as in other
Hellenistic Greek". (p.58). He cites Lk 6:42 as one of the examples, adding
the following trans - "permit me to remove the speck".
Hope that helps,
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [
<mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org>
mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of waldo slusher
Sent: Sunday, 22 June 2003 1:13 PM
To: b-greek question
Subject: [B-Greek] Luke 6:42 partial
ADELFE, AFES EKBALW TO KARFOS EN TWi OFQALMWi SOU...
AFES is 2nd person
EKBALW is 1st person
Is the idea here something like:
"Brother, (you) let/allow + I remove
But the "I remove" (1st person) becomes "me remove"
Hence, "(you) let me remove the speck from your
eye..."
Related to this question: Are these two finite verbs,
side by side, an unusual construction?
(Sorry for this strange format. I couldn't make sense
of my question without dividing it up like this.)
=====
Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AB
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! <http://sbc.yahoo.com>
http://sbc.yahoo.com
---
B-Greek home page: <http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek>
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
B-Greek mailing list
B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
<http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek>
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list