[B-Greek] Proleptic Aorist question

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 11 14:59:50 EDT 2005


> EI MEN K' AUQI MENWN TRWWN POLIN AMFIMACWMAI,
> WLETO MEN MOI NOSTOS  ...
> 
> If I hang around the city of the Trojans fighting,
> my return home is lost ...


Even here the idea of the return home being a loss is
not contingent on events that take place 'subsequent'
to the fighting, but by virtue of events
contemporaneous with the fighting (or past from the
standpoint of the return home). What brings about the
'loss' would be the past 'hanging around,' not
anything that might happen in the future (during the
return home).

I suspect one could support the notion that no
conditional statement makes any temporal claim OUTSIDE
itself.

That is, conditional statements do not relate to
surrounding grammatical units in any temporal sense.
The only temporal elements of conditional statements
are those expressed WITHIN. (IF A happens, then B will
happen.) But the temporal relation of any [If A then
B] statement is unrelated to surrounding contextual
elements.

Any thoughts? 

Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


	
		
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