[B-Greek] MH PEPISTEUKEN in John 3:18

Marty Cauley Marty.Cauley at sfrep.com
Tue Sep 20 13:37:54 EDT 2005


Hey everyone

In consulting arichives for PEPISTEUKEN in John 3:18, I found a discussion
(http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/test-archives/html4/1998-03/24055.html)
stimulated by Blackwelder's comments, with these braketted insertions:

 

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"The one who continues trusting [PISTEUWN, pres. part.] in him 
is not condemned; the one who does not continue trusting [same construction 
but with negative particle] is already condemned [KRISIN, perf. pass., is in
a 
state of condemnation] because he has not believed with abiding results 
[PEPISTEUKEN, perf. tense, indicating permanent attitude of unbelief] in the

name of the only Son of God." 

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I do not know if the brakets are original with Blackwelder in the above, or
added by the poster. I assume the latter. But it appears to be rather
inconsistent in its intent in defining the perfect in this verse as,
"indicating permanent attitude of unbelief." This statement would seem to
indicate that the judment associated with the perfect in v. 18 is due to the
fact that one never believed rather than failed to continue to believe. My
inquirey is regarding how valid is the insert in the above archive as a
grammatical option that the perfect in this verse indicates a "permanent
attitude of unbelief"?

 

If MH PISTEUW could be equivelent to APISTEW, then it would appear that one
grammatical option would be that those who disbelieved, and as a result
continued to disbelieve, would be condemned and a "permanent attitude of
unbelief" may be in view.

 

So my questions regarding the perfect in Jn 3:18 are:

(1) Could MH PEPISTEUKEN be grammatically equivilent to an alpha privative +
PEPISTEUKEN?

(2) Does APISTEW have a perfect form ?

(3) For sake of curosity, why is the from APISTEW rather than APISTEUW?

(4) Also, for classificaiton purposes, Wallace says that the perfect of
stative would be an "Aoristic Perfect and Perfect with Present Force" (pp.
579-580). Would this classification be generally applicable to the perfect
of PISTEUW? (I would think so in Jn 11:27?) 

 

Thanks for thoughts,

Marty Cauley

 




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