[B-Greek] Future infinitive

D Jongkind dj214 at cam.ac.uk
Thu May 1 07:02:03 EDT 2003


The older Nestle-Aland editions give the following version of John 21:25

OUD AUTON OIMAI TON KOSMON  CWRHSEIN  TA ... BIBLIA

Strictly speaking the infinitive CWRHSEIN is a future infinitive in form.
However, Moulton-Howard, 219 says 'CWRHSEIN was probably an aor., as far as
the writer's consciousness went; and the substitution of -ASQAI in many
places where so clear a future as EPELEUSESQAI appeared in a formula shows
that even this was felt as an aorist.'

Do I understand M-H correctly as saying that it could happen that a future
stem was used for the aorist because the principal parts of the two were
mixed up?



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