[B-Greek] Verbs (Including Imperatives, 3rd Person) and Substantival Participles
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Fri Nov 11 18:45:06 EST 2005
Chet,
I mispoke about the imperative being (Robertson, p. 941 has
PROSTATIKH EGKLISIS, probably a deformation of PROSTAKTIKH)
PARASTATKOS -H -ON, is one of the terms, along with hORISTIKOS, -H, -
ON for the indicative, especially used for the imperfect. Sorry. You
are obviously more knowledgable than I about Greek! As I read the
Greek grammarian I am looking at (Appollonius Dyscolus), his "rule of
thumb" definition of the imperative (PROSTAKTIKA) comes about in the
course of discussing some examples of the aorist participle: (My
Translation, I'm not aware of any other English translation)
And this [behavior of participles] should be observed: that the
imperative construction of verbs affects the syntax of the the
participle to be undefined in [respect to time], for example "Let the
one who has killed the tyrrant be honored." Now the indicative mood
in the present or in the past relates the participle more to the
verb, as in the example "the one who killed the tyrrant is honored"
or "the one who killed the tyrrant was honored." And again the
undefined (aoristic) future is perceived in accordance what we said
[about the the effect of the imperative on the syntax of the
participle], "The one who killed the tyrrant will be honored," as
completely correct, for concerning what is happening and what has
happened the rule is clear, concerning what what will happen is more
clear in which case the participial syntax is undefined. And it is
obvious from such an example that all imperatives involve the
dispositon of something future, being commanded either with respect
to contiuous or completed action.
De constructione, 2.2.114
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
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