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

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekoning at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 7 13:55:05 EDT 2005


On 6/7/05 9:32 AM, "davidsugg at comcast.net" <davidsugg at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

It might seem strange to some that the main verb in the first half
(protasis) of a conditional statement would be in an imperative.


Elizabeth Kline 





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