[B-Greek] Imperative Mood

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 4 23:48:54 EDT 2004


In that the Imperative Mood is not a part of the
Indicative system, grammarians almost universally
assert that "it is unrelated to time." However, can we
even conceive of an Imperative statement that is not
by definition FUTURE referring.? While grammarians,
for example, seem to wrestle with the aspectual
differences between the aorist and present
prohibitions (undefined or continuous aspect), few
seem to state that, because a command must appeal to
the will or volition of the recipient, it must
therefore be FUTURE. Can it be asserted that the
Imperative Mood commands an action to be taken or not
taken FUTURE from the time the command is issued? 

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Eddie Mishoe
Pastor

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