[B-Greek] 3rd sing aor imperative in Mt 6:9-10

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 8 19:03:42 EST 2006


The third person imperatives are also known as jussives [now, that was a big help, wasn't it :-) ].  They are generally translated as "Let X do Y."  Hence "Let your name be sanctified [It's passive]" and "Let your Kingdom come" and "Let your will be done [passive again]."  You missed one in the general neighborhood -- MH GNWTW hH ARISTERA SOU TI POIEI hH DECIA SOU "Let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing."  They aren't extremely numerous in the NT, but a good many seem clustered in this section.  I guess I need to modify that somewhat.  I see 211 occurences in 168 verses so it's more frequent than I had thought.
  
 
george
gfsomsel
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From: Pastor Shawn Ragan <shawn at meridianchurch.org>
To: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 5:49:43 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] 3rd sing aor imperative in Mt 6:9-10


Matthew 6:9c-10

hAGIASQHTW TO ONOMA SOU

ELQETW hH BASILEIA SOU

GENHQHTW TO QELHMA SOU



In this first portion of the Lord's Prayer, the verbs are imperative and all
three are 3rd person singular (1st and 3rd verses above are passive, the 2nd
verse above is active).  I guess I am trying to understand how to understand
a 3rd person singular passive aorist imperative.  hAGIASQHTW is usually
translated as "hallowed," but how does the morphology of the verb affect how
we should understand the meaning here?  The Greek book we used in my first
year Greek class that covered imperatives had this to say:  ".commands to
the third person are rare and they are not given in this book." (Seligson,
Greek for Reading, University of Michigan Press).



Needless to say, that is not much help and I am trying to understand how to
understand this.any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.



Pastor Shawn Ragan

Meridian Church of God

"Building Stronger Families"



shawn at meridianchurch.org

http://meridianchurch.org <http://meridianchurch.org/> 



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