[B-Greek] historical present tense in romans revisited

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 8 12:47:38 EDT 2005


Joseph:

> "After studying a healthy stack of both secular and
> religious books, essays 
> and commentaries on the use of Historical Present
> Tense in many languages 
> (including items from a list obtained through this
> forum) I have found very 
> little that directly addresses this subject in the
> book of Romans. In my 
> opinion (and in the opinion of some other sources)
> the text in Romans 
> 7:14-25 is a textbook example of the HPT as Paul
> refers to his past 
> experience under the law. Do you agree with this
> conclusion?"

This passage bears no resemblance to a HPT usage. And
remember, it is not the HPT that transports a context
back into some past, but rather you will find an
already developed past, narrative-like section in
which the HPT functions. 


Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


		
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