[B-Greek] historical present tense in romans

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 10 08:33:52 EDT 2005


Dr. Buth:

This has been a strange exchange indeed. I find myself
in agreement with this posting. I too reject a
tenseless system. I think the main place you and I
differ as I look back on the past exchanges is that I
see Tense as relative, whereas, using my definitions,
you see Tense as absolute. 

You wrote:::

> Trust me, I do not equate Aspect with Tense. But
> ENESTWS XRONOS
> ORISTIKH EGKLISIS (present time, indicative mood)
> does indeed 
> carry tense -- not because of its ancient name or
> its modern 
> name, but because of its semantic signification.

Again, I not only agree, I have said as much in my
earlier posts. When some see Present Tense, they think
"current time." When others see Present Tense, they
think "contemporaneous time." The first sees Tense
more absolutely (no context needed for default
meaning), whereas the contemporaneous time view sees
the default Present Indicative as expressing
contemporaneous time to some deictic center (and until
that deictic center is expressed, the Present Tense
must remain neutral as to its temporal expression).


Though a strange exchange, it has also been somewhat
profitable.



Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


	
		
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