[B-Greek] Mark 16...
Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 24 19:38:59 EST 2004
James:
I would not expect either the Present or Aorist in any
given context. The writer may want to present an event
from the Aorist perspective, and may later present the
same event from the Present perspective.
The Aorist Imperatives here denote the idea of "get
the action or event completed." The present imperative
would denote "get the action started."
(I might also point out that had the Present
Imperative been used here, the writer would not be
saying he ONLY wanted the event to get started.
Rather, he would have been focusing the readers'
attention in that direction for some pragmatic
reason.)
Either way, after all is said and done, the writer
wants them to get started (Present) and finished
(Aorist).
Eddie Mishoe
--- "James J." <jamesjay at paonline.com> 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?
>
> Also could someone recommend some good commentary
> that deals with the Greek of
> the NT; something like the Keil & Delitch of the OT.
>
>
> Thanks;
> James J.
>
>
>
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