[B-Greek] Heb 10:29 who is he..?
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Fri Nov 18 12:26:04 EST 2005
Craig,
The subject of AXIOQHSETAI is everything in the verse with its
qualifiers and sub-modifiers including and after the article hO. "He"
is restricted or described by three attributive aorist participles.
The syntactical relationship of the future with an aorist participle
relates the action of the participle to the future, in this case a
hypothetical. Note the comment by the second century Greek grammarian
Appollonius Dyscolus, De constructione 2.2.114:
"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 the same principle, "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."
I think this native Greek speaker has grasped something important
about this case. So it would not really be grammatically proper to
assume that the author is talking about people who have actually done
this. Remember, the aorist participle does not indicate time in and
of itself, and, especially when construed with a future, it refers to
something future or potential but often previous to the action of the
main verb.
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
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