[B-Greek] hINA GNWTE KAI GINWSKHTE Jn. 10:38

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 3 09:45:15 EST 2006


Rob:

> THAT YOU MAY KNOW AND YOU MAY KNOW  Jn. 10:38
>  
> hINA GNWTE KAI GINWSKHTE hOTI EN EMOI hO PATHR KAGW
> EN TW PATRI.

The Aorist is used when the writer wants to portray an
action as already attained. The Present is used to
portray that action as 'in progress.' 

Despite the Subjunctives, you have the Aorist and
Present in their normal, temporal relation. The Aorist
of GINWSKW would indicate the attaining of some
contextually specified knowledge. The resulting
Present would indicate that one would continue in
light of that knowledge. 

Since knowledge is built upon previous knowledge, I
have no problem with translations that take this "know
and understand." That sounds very Johannine also.



Eddie Mishoe
Pastor

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