[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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David J. Sugg
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