[B-Greek] Mark 16...
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Dec 24 19:28:07 EST 2004
At 6:48 PM -0500 12/24/04, James J. wrote:
>Hello B-Greek list. Just joined. I have a question on some grammar in Mark
>16:15. The verbs "Go" and "preach" are both in Aorist tense. Shouldn't we expect
>a present imperitive here?
It would help to cite the text: POREUQENTES EIS TON KOSMON hAPANTA KHRUXATE TO
EUAGGELION PASHi THI KTISEI
(1) It's common for a participle indicating the earlier of successive actions to
be aorist; (2) the force of the aorist KHRUXATE should probably understood as
perfective rather that durative/continuative: it's not "keep proclaiming"
(although one may need to do that to achieve what's demanded) but "get it
proclaimed." So the text viewed most literally is: "When you've gone into the
entire world get the gospel proclaimed to the whole creation."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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