[B-Greek] Rev 2:25

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jan 12 21:12:17 EST 2004


At 5:46 PM -0800 1/12/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>PLHN hO ECETE KRATHSATE ACRIS hOU AN hHXW
>
>Best I can figure, ACRIS hOU means "until which." Then
>you add AN to get an indefinite idea. Then, I guess
>you have to supply the word "time." All of which then
>means "until which [time] I may come." I added "may"
>of "may come" to account for the AN. Am I close here?

hHXW is aorist subjunctive as required by the AN; the sense of ACRIS hOU is
"pending such time as ..."; the force of the aorist subjunctive is "I
(shall) have arrived"--"But hold on to what you have pending the time at
which I shall have come."
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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