[B-Greek] Apocalypse of Peter
Thomas J. Kraus
t.j.kraus at web.de
Sat Jan 7 03:46:47 EST 2006
On one of the two preserved fragments of a parchment codex with text
passages from the Apocalypse of Peter, the first few lines of folio one,
recto, reads as follows:
[PAR]EXOMAI TOIS KLHTOIS MOU KAI EKKLEKTOIS MOU,
hON EAN AITHSWNTAI ME EK THS KOLASEWS ...
"I will give to my called and my chosen whomsoever they will (would) ask me
for out of punishment ..."
Leaving theological implications and interpretations aside (how can someone
who is already being punished be released out of that anyway?), one
interpreter suggested that the request granted to the "called" and "chosen"
refers to the present and thus is to be fulfilled in the present because of
the aorist subjunctive AITHSWNTAI
I take this as a conditional with future tense in the apodosis and EAV +
subjunctive in the protasis: then it should be a prospective case
(eventualis).
To me the EAN + subjunctive (here aorist) also points to something in the
future which one reckons to come true/to happen.
Am I wrong here? Thanks in advance.
Thomas J. Kraus
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Dr. Thomas J. Kraus
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