[B-Greek] Mark 16...

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Sun Dec 26 13:16:28 EST 2004


On Dec 25, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Eric Weiss wrote:

> I think Daniel Wallace (Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics)
> would likely call this an instance of an Attendant Circumstance
> participle, to be translated as a finite verb connected to the main
> verb by "and." His criteria/indicators are that it does not first make
> good sense when treated as an adverbial participle (including
> temporal, I assume, i.e., "while" for present; "after" for aorist),
> and then he says that 90% of Attendant Circumstance
> participles have the following five features:
>
> * tense of the participle is usually aorist
> * tense of the main verb is usually aorist (the historical present
> occurs from time to time)
> * mood of the main verb is usually imperative or indicative (the
> subjunctive sometimes occurs)
> * participle precedes the main verb in word order and time of
> event (though usually in close proximity)
> * occurs frequently in narrative literature, infrequently elsewhere
>
> Wallace says the POREUQENTES OUN MAQHTEUSATE
> PANTA TO EQNH of Matthew 28:19 is an Attendant
> Circumstance participle: "Go, therefore, and make disciples
> of all the nations...." The NET Bible, which Wallace helped
> edit, translates Mark 16:15 as "Go into all the world and
> preach the gospel to every creature." Other translations
> that treat it similarly include KJV, NASB, NIV, Amplified,
> Rheims, NAB, NRSV. That is, they do not emphasise the
> antecedent nature of the aorist participle but coordinate its
> action with the main verb ("Go and preach"). To the English
> reader, it appears that two finite verbs are being translated.

Wallace describes this construction by saying that the participle 
"piggy-backs" on the mood of the finite verb, which is kind of a neat 
way to describe it, I think.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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