[B-Greek] 1 Peter 1:15

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jan 7 06:28:01 EST 2005


At 3:23 AM +0000 1/7/05, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:
>> > HH: Maybe the aorist passive imperative SUGCARHTE in Luke 15:6
>> supports what Carl Conrad has been saying about the passive taking
>> over the function of the middle. Rejoicing together with somebody
>> else certainly might specially involve the subject in the action. One
>> causes oneself to have joy in a sense, with others.
>
>Hey Harold I am sorry but I am not familiar with  Carl Conrad's approach
>to passive aorist imperatives functioning as a middle.  I am new to this
>forum, and have not read anything past a couple days ago.   Actually I
>don't even know what the arguement concearning 1 Peter is about, I just
>saw something interesting about aorist imperatives and decideded to say
>something.
>
>If you have time, fill me in on Carl's arguement, I'd love to read it.

My longer paper is at:
	http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Docs/NewObsAncGrkVc.pdf
My brief intro to Ancient Greek voice is at
	http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/UndAncGrkVc.pdf
You can read them online if you have a PDF plug-in; you can download them
by option-clicking on the URL

My view is not specifically that "passive aorist imperatives function as a
middle" but rather that all -QH- "aorist passive" and "future passive"
forms can bear EITHER middle OR passive semantic force, i.e. forms in -OMHN
or -SAMHN and forms in -QHN both mean essentially "came to be in X
condition"--and that meaning can be interpreted in the context of the
particular form either in a middle sense or a passive sense.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/



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