Re: [B-Greek] PROÏDOUSA (Gal. 3:8)
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Thu Dec 15 00:46:47 EST 2005
> > Martin Möller asked about PROÏDOUSA, in Galatians 3:8 ('PROÏDOUSA
> > DE hH GRAFH...')
> >
> > It is indeed the nominative singular feminine aorist (2)
> > participle, but of PROORAW. The masculine equivalent is in Acts
> > 2:31 (PROÏDWN). I think I'm right in saying that this is one of
> > those verbs that often present an aorist form but with a present
> > meaning.
>
> Not so (it is true of the perfects OIDA and hESTHKA that they have a
> present sense); the aorist participle IDWN/IDOUSA/IDON functions just
> like any other aorist participle; recall too that, although the
> aorist participle in narrative often -- perhaps generally --
> indicates action prior to that of the primary verb, it really does
> not have tense so much as aspect; so you could convey it here in Gal
> 3:8 as "having foreseen" or "inasmuch as it foresaw".
Isn't this a case of digamma deformation (I'm not sure if deformation
is the right term) EIDON is the finite form which presupposes EϝIDON
and when the E syllabic augment is lost with the participle form,
since the digamma is not written the result is IDWN, IDOUSA, IDON for
the aorist participle?
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
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