[B-Greek] Re. Romans 6:2 - Aorist and future aspects

Paul F. Evans pastorpaul1957 at bellsouth.net
Tue Sep 12 12:47:55 EDT 2006


List,

 

I have been trying to follow the discussion on aspect prompted by my post on
the aorist and imperfect. A great deal of it is out of my league, and some
of what I have heard I find difficult to accept based upon its highly
conjectural or philosophic nature.

 

In any case here is… to my mind… a specific case of contextually conditioned
aspect and tense marking for employing the aorist.

 

HOITINES APEQANOMEN THi HARMARTIAi, PWS ETI ZHSOMEN EN AUTHi;

 

To me the future verb “we will live” implies a future continuous aspect,
conditioned on the action of the aorist.  Of course the assertion Paul makes
has the force or a subjunctive.  Nevertheless, the continuous future marks
the aorist as a past, punctiliar.  The aorist implies a past completed
action. In other words there is a striking apparent contrast between the
future continuous condition premised on a past relatively (if we don’t get
into arguments of how long it takes to die, a theological argument) short in
duration action. How do others on the list read this?

 

Please do not get bogged down on the theology that may or may not be
implied…  it is obviously beyond the scope of this list!  I know already how
I feel about that part!

 

Paul F. Evans

Pastor

Wilmington First Pentecostal Holiness Church

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