[B-Greek] Imperfect and Aorist Aspects

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 8 19:26:50 EDT 2006


Dr. Buth wrote....
> and I don't think that aorist refers to the future
> either. As a  
> literary convention I can write a story about 2050
> and use the past  
> tense. but such past tenses do not neutralize the
> time component.    
> the celebrated case of Jude 14 is a quotation
> anyway. Just another  
> past tense. (sort of a cavalier approach, right? I
> don't even care  
> how some might want to translate it into another
> language.)

Jude 14 well illustrates the Deictic Center. The
Deictic Center is stated in vs 15 "to execute
judgment..." By the time the Lord starts executing
judgment, HE WILL HAVE ALREADY COME. In fact, I would
be willing to argue that the time reference of "to
execute judgment" is the Deictic Center by virtue of
the Aorist HLQEN of vs 14. The Aorist signals the
Deictic Center. Even if this were not a prophetic
utterance, it would be painfully normal Greek.

BTW, Dr. Buth, I emailed you a question OFFLIST
recently and did not receive a reply. Are you still
willing to take OFFIST questions? I didn't know if it
got lost or if you prefer not to answer such
questions. (It dealt with 2 Sam. 21.19)

Eddie Mishoe
Pastor

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