[B-Greek] Luke 12:4 FOBHQHTE why not an imperative?

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Wed Sep 8 16:56:36 EDT 2004


Dirk,

I think Turner overlooked Sophocles frgm. 453 MH YEUSON, W ZEU, MH M' hELHiS
ANEU DOROS and its parody by Aristophanes, Thesm. 870 MH YEUSON, W ZEU, THS
EPIOUSHS ELPIDOS.
But this example of MH with an imperative of the aorist is an exception in
that time.

Arie

Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

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Van: "D Jongkind" <dj214 at cam.ac.uk>
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Verzonden: woensdag 8 september 2004 21:08
Onderwerp: Re: [B-Greek] Luke 12:4 FOBHQHTE why not an imperative?


> Arie Dirkzwager wrote:
>
> >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 ?
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks Arie,
>
> You are right. In addition, Turner in his syntax has a remark on page
> 78: "The prohibitive aor. imperative is later than the NT: Horn quotes
> the first as iii/A.D."
>
> Regards,
> Dirk Jongkind
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