[B-Greek] Luke 12:4 FOBHQHTE why not an imperative?
Arie Dirkzwager
dirkzwager at pandora.be
Wed Sep 8 13:36:50 EDT 2004
Long ago I learnt as a rule that some imperatives cannot be used with MH. As
I have not teached Greek for some decads I am not sure about certain rules.
Reading Greek is something else than teaching it.
I looked in my grammars and saw that normally the imperatives of the aorist
cannot be put in the negative form.
I think that the editors of the GNT used that rule.
Or does anyone know of imperatives of the aorist with MH ?
Arie
Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
Aan: "D Jongkind" <dj214 at cam.ac.uk>
CC: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>; "B-Greek"
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Verzonden: woensdag 8 september 2004 16:25
Onderwerp: Re: [B-Greek] Luke 12:4 FOBHQHTE why not an imperative?
> At 3:04 PM +0100 9/8/04, D Jongkind wrote:
> >Dear list, Carl,
> >
> >Let me try again and be a little bit more precise. If FOBHQHTE is a
> >subjunctive then it is of course an indirect command. My point is,
> >however, what is there to say against taking FOBHQHTE in Luke 12:4 as
> >an imperative and therefore as a direct command (I tell you: do not
> >dread those ...), just as in Luke 12:5?
>
>
> OK, I'll grant that the form could be interpreted as an imperative and
that
> the accenting is a matter of editorial choice; the NA27/UBS4 committee
> evidently interpreted the form as subjunctive and therefore accented it in
> the critical text with a circumflex over the eta.
>
>
> >Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> >
> >The first FOBHQHTE is rightly accented as a subjunctive because it's an
> >indirect command dependent upon the introductory LEGW hUMIN ("I tell you
> >that you should NOT dread those who kill the body ..."). Of course it
> >has the same force as an imperative, but the aorist subjunctive with MH
> >regularly does have imperatival force. So, yes: both verbs would be
> >TRANSLATED into English and perhaps most target languages as imperative,
> >but the first Greek form is indeed an aorist subjunctive.
> >
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