[B-Greek] Eusebius Revisited
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 18 02:30:41 EDT 2003
At 09:23 PM 9/17/03 -0700, Peter Kirby wrote:
>A while back I posed a question about Historia Ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter
>11, Section 7. The TLG CD-ROM offers this Greek text:
>
>TAU=TA PERI\ TOU= *)IWA/NNOU DIELQW\N, KAI\ TOU= SWTH=ROS H(MW=N KATA\ TH\N
>AU)TH\N TOU= SUGGRA/MMATOS I(STORI/AN W(=DE/ PWS ME/MNHTAI:
>
>There was a brief discussion about whether Eusebius implies that the Jesus
>passage came after the John passage, as "an aorist participle usually refers
>to action antecedent to that of the main verb."
I would say that the aorist participle here is past from the point of
view of the present. Although the main verb is perfect in form, its
sense is really present (see the LSJ entry s.v. MIMNHSKW), and it is
certainly the present effect of the testimonium on the reader that is
being emphasized.
Stephen Carlson
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