[B-Greek] Third-person commands
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Fri Nov 11 21:49:38 EST 2005
@Don:Yours is a good comment illustrating the problem. I could use the tree/forest analogy. We pick up all our information about the context from the syntax and vocabulary. If you think of these elements as trees, then at some point you have enough trees to visualize a forest (= the context). Grammatically (or by definition), there is no question as to whom Paul is addressing his third-person command; in effect, we're not seeing the tree for the forest. I am exploring the possibility that Paul is ordering the congregation to permit the unbeliever to leave as a kind of side-effect of the third-person command, a rhetorical but not grammatical effect. Simply saying that the command is to the congregation because that makes sense to us is taking the easy way out. If it really is to the congregation, then we should logically postulate the steps that take us from the third to second person, without nullifying the third-person command in the process (as in jury nullification).
As to Matt. 9:27, you'll need to clarify for me because I only see a second-person imperative there.
Response: No I understand what you are saying, and I'd be interested in what others on this site might think about it.
In regards to Matt 9:27, sorry I misread that one, I was looking for examples of imperatives that were not commands, but forgot to look waht person it was. Another one that seems to be interesting is Ezra 1:3 OIKODMHSATW (Let him go up and rebuild..) is an aorist imperative 3rd person, and I don't think this one is a command.
ANABAINW is not a jussive but is used for veya'al = "let him go up "which is one.
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Kelton Graham
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