[B-Greek] Periphrastic imperatives

Yancy Smith Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Thu Nov 17 00:10:04 EST 2005


Has anyone actually gone through all the NT examples and counted how  
many of the 3r person imperatives are actually/rhetorically directed  
at 2nd persons? Note my posting on Third Person Imperatives, where I  
show that most of the 3rd person singular imperatives are really  
directed to 2nd persons. My favorite example is Mt 6:3 hORATE MHDES  
GINWSKETW. (see [to it], [let] no one know!). If most examples of the  
3rd person imperative are rhetorically directed to the 2nd person,  
perhaps it should become the rule when we discuss the 3rd person  
imperative. Just a thought.

Yancy

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






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