[B-Greek] Proleptic Aorist question
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 12 09:47:41 EDT 2005
Pastor Mishoe:
Is this what you addressed in an earlier posting? You
said that propositions need to FIRST be separated into
temporal or nontemporal groups, and then evaluated.
This proposition, being conditional, would therefore
be nontemporal (outside itself). Am I right?
Mitch Larramore
--- Eddie Mishoe <edmishoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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