[B-Greek] Luke 12:10

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jun 29 07:06:58 EDT 2004


At 6:51 AM -0400 6/29/04, Mike Burke wrote:
>Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:38:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mike Burke <tempoffline921 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Luke 12:10
>To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>
>Texts:
>
>Mt 10:33 hOSTIS D' AN ARNHSHTAI ME EMPROSQEN TWN ANQRWPWN, ARNHSOMAI KAGW
>AUTON EMPROSQEN TOU PATROS MOU TOU EN [TOIS] OURANOIS.
>
>LK 12;10 KAI PAS hOS EREI LOGON EIS TON hUION TOU ANQRWPOU, AFEQHSETAI
>AUTWi; TWi DE EIS TWi hAGION PNEUMA BLASFHMHSANTI OUK AFEQHSETAI
>
>I read that the greek tense of Matt. 10:33 is what's called an constative
>aorist, and does not speak of a momentary denial (as in the case of Peter),
>but of a lifetime of denial. Could anyone tell me if the word "blasphemes"
>could be taken the same way in Luke 12:10? (I believe it's a first aorist,
>active, dative singular masculine participle.)

In my opinion, yes--it IS a constative aorist, but that's a pretty broad
term, primarily indicating the action as a whole and affirming that it
does, did, will happen. One could translate the articular participle in Lk
12:18 (TWi BLASFHMHSANTI) as "the one who DOES blaspheme" (whether the
blasphemy has happened in the past, happens now or will happen in the
future).

The "constative aorist" is actually a pretty broad category: it affirms the
factuality of the action without defining it with any precision. Wallace
describes it summarily (p. 557): "The constative aorist covers a multitude
of actions. The event might be iterative in nature, or durative, or
momentary, but the aorist says none of this. It places the stress on the
fact of the occurrence, not its nature."
-- 

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