[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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