[B-Greek] aorist subjunctive l
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 31 10:12:51 EST 2004
At 2:06 PM +0100 3/31/04, Philip Engmann wrote:
>The Aorist Subjunctive
>
>Jose Alvarez defines the aorist subjunctive as "an event that will
>punctuate the succession of history if an individual is faithful to
>accomplish it as an act of their free will".
>(www.thepattern.org/files/OurpositioninChristtwo.htm).
>
> Albert Rijksbaron says that "the aorist subjunctive indicates the state
>of affairs of the protasis is anterior to that of the apodosis".
>(http://typhon.perseus.tufts.edu/typhon/aem/Stoa/Synsem/html) .
>
>Does anyone have any simpler or clearer definitions of the aorist
>subjunctive, particularly in relation to the third person active aorist
>subjunctive verb, CRONISE in Habakkuk 2:3?
I supposse you mean CRONISHi?
Text (it's usually helpful to have the text in front of us): DIOTI ETI
hORASIS EIS KAIRON KAI ANTATELEI EIS PERAS KAI OUK EIS KENON EAN hUSTERHSHi
hUPOMEINON AUTON hOTI ERCOMENOS hHXEI KAI OU MH CRONISHi.
It seems to me that your two citations are irrelevant to the aorist
subjective in CRONISHi; this is rather an instance of what we were
discussing on-list a week or so ago (3/17-24) with regard to OU MH
TELESHTE; here we have the common usage of OU MH + aorist subjunctive as
emphatic future assertion: "he will certainly not tarry." Cf. Wallace GGBB,
p. 468, "Emphatic negation." Certainly the fact that CRONISHi is aorist
subjunctive has nothing to do with the conditional construction preceding
it ("if he should be late, wait for him"), rather this is in the
explanatory clause, "because he WILL COME ..."
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Carl W. Conrad
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