[B-Greek] future as imperative

John VanRietschoten jvanriet1 at mts.net
Fri Nov 11 11:01:37 EST 2005


John VanRietschoten BD pastor emeritus in the Canadian and American Reformed Churches.

On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:16 AM, Waldemar Martens wrote:
>
>> Hello List,
>> I have a question about the following passage:
>> KURION TON QEON SOU PROSKUNHSEIS KAI AUTW MONW LATREUSEIS (Luke 4,8b)
>>
>> The grammatical form of the two verbs ist future. So why this is
>> commonly translated as:
>> "You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.
>> " (AKJV) ?
>> I would translate this as.
>> "You WILL worship the Lord your God and will serve him only"
>>
>> Did I missunderstand something?

Without going to the Hebrew it seems that A.T.Robertson in A Grammar of the New Testament p. 889 gives the answer calling this a volitive durative future. He writes: Examples of the volitive durative future the legal precepts (common in the LXX) so often quoted in the NT (etc). Dana and Mantey in A Manual Grammar of the Greek NT p. 169 would call this on p.171 a Hortative Subjunction. Greetings. John VanRietschoten.


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