[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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