[B-Greek] SIGATW in 1 Cor 14:30

Kimmo Huovila kimmo.huovila at helsinki.fi
Mon Sep 26 06:41:15 EDT 2005


EAN DE ALLWi APOKALUFQHi KAQHMENWi, hO PRWTOS SIGATW.

Some commentators think that the situation is that in the middle of someone 
speaking, someone sitting gets a revelation, and then the first person is 
supposed to stop speaking.

If this is the case, would SIGHSATW be more natural? The reasoning is that the 
SIGAW is stative and the present means to be quiet and the aorist often has 
the sense of becoming quiet (change of state).

Could the thought be that the first speaker is to remain silent after 
finishing his speech and another getting a revelation and starting to share 
it? In other words, could this be a prohibition against interrupting the 
second speaker by the first one? Which would be more likely?

I am especially interested in how you evaluate the relevance of the verbal 
aspect to reconstructing the context.

Kimmo Huovila



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