[B-Greek] Understanding tense of participles?

Yancy Smith Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Fri Nov 11 15:18:53 EST 2005


About the perfect passive participle in Rev 20:4, even though this is  
a substantival participle, it still retains its aspectual force. And,  
since it refers to an action previous to the main verb, EDOQH, it  
translates into English as a pluperfect, "those who had been  
beheaded." But it does not say anything about the appearance of the  
souls/people who had been beheaded, of course. It only suggests that  
the action of "were given judgement" is restricted to the group of  
those who had been beheaded and those who did not worship the beast.  
In this way it functions like a restrictive relative embed or clause.

Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University






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