[B-Greek] ROM 8:13 Mood of QANATOUTE

davidsugg at comcast.net davidsugg at comcast.net
Tue Jun 7 12:32:06 EDT 2005


I have been doing a study on verses dealing with sanctification, and have a 
question about the mood of QANAOUTE in Romans 8:13. First the text:

EI GAR KATA SARKA ZTHE MELLETE APOQNHSKEIN EI DE PNEUMATI TAS PRAXEIS TOU 
SWMATOS THANATOUTE ZHSESQE.

It seems that most take QANATOUTE AS being in the imperative. Since the 
morphology is the same for the imperative and the indicative (both present and 
imperfect tense), how does one know that this should be taken as an imperative? 
The reason this caught my eye was that all of the morphologically tagged texts 
that I looked at had this listed as a present indicative, not a present 
imperative.

What are the clues to correctly identifying the mood when the morphological form 
is the same for several moods?

I checked the archives and did not see this covered.
Thanks for your help.

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