[B-Greek] John 8:58 PPA???
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Sat Jan 15 09:01:35 EST 2005
kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:
> There is a guy named Jason Beduhn currently debating with Rob Bowman on the issue of John 8:58 right now. His view is that John 8:58 is a PPA. (present of Past Action still in progress).
>
>He also argues that saying Before Abraham was I AM was bad english.
>
>But since this is a greek chat room, does anyone here think John 8:58 could be a PPA??
>
>--
>Kelton Graham
>KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
>
A sentence cannot be a tense. A verb can have tense, but a sentence can't. Not in the true meaning of the word "tense".
As to "before Abraham was, I AM" being bad English- that is totally irrelevant to Greek. It is perfectly fine Greek.
Best,
Jim
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