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

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 12 15:00:31 EDT 2006


Paul
 
> 
> 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.  

If the Aorist doesn't indicate time, per some, why not
understand the Aorist as something that will occur in
the future? Why not: 

How shall we who will (completely) die to sin (when we
get to heaven), yet live in it? 

If one day we will be done with sin, why not live that
way now. It does seem like every sentence, if there is
no grammatical tense, must be examined in every
possible way, even ways that seem illogical to
us...for who know...maybe the writer is using
rhetoric. This is one of the troubles I am having with
those who hold to the Porter view of Greek verbs...it
seems so counter-intuitive to me. Was Greek really
that difficult to read?


Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas

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