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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Jun 7 14:41:44 EDT 2005


On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:32:06 +0000 davidsugg at comcast.net writes:
> 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.
> 
> --
> David J. Sugg
> 3200 Raye Road
> Thorndale, PA 19372
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The others who posted replies are correct that this must be an indicative
(and is taken as such by every translation I have seen) since it is in
the protasis of a conditional sentence.  It is also true that the form is
identical whether 2 pl indic. or 2 pl imper.  Cf. Rom 8.13 and 1 Sam
22.17 (LXX) to see how this is the case.  Perhaps the fact that it is a
contract verb and therefore has a different connecting vowel(s) has
caused the confusion for you -- it wouldn't be uncommon.

george
gfsomsel
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