[B-Greek] question about Matthew 17:5

MPAymerNYC at aol.com MPAymerNYC at aol.com
Thu Feb 3 00:37:28 EST 2005


yes but...

If eudokew means: I AM content (in him/through him--dative of means) your 
response still doesn't answer my question...

Why the aorist tense?  

Does the voice mean to say "I WAS content (in/through him)" in that 
punctiliar sense?  This doesn't seem to make sense given the following command--"listen 
to him: akouete autou." 

If the best translation is not I WAS but rather I AM, how does one get that 
with an aorist...

And if the answer reverts back to the matter of the punctiliar aorist, then 
doesn't the same question hold: I AM pleased with him "right now--but may not 
be later?"  At the very least, I would expect an imperfect or present tense 
verb--denoting continuous action--here...

M. Aymer

Rev. Margaret Aymer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of New Testament
The Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, GA
404-527-7731

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depricate agitation, are men who 
want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This 
struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both 
moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a 
demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglas, New York, 1857



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