[B-Greek] (no subject)
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Thu Dec 15 08:29:03 EST 2005
When you are referring to "simple past" is assume you are meaning
historic present, aorist, imperfect?
What about the aorist tense in the classic example used to show a
timelessness (Matt 3:17):
hOUTOS ESTIN hO hUIOS MOU hO AGAPHTOS, EN hWi EUDOKHSA
It does not seem in this case that E<S but that E=S since the speech
constitutes the event (an effective pronouncement).
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
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