[B-Greek] Fwd: Imperfect and Aorist Tense-Aspects
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 15 22:25:15 EDT 2006
Con
> I think the major reason that thousands of future
> referring aorists are not
> found is that the future indicative is a FUTURE
> AORIST.
It looks like you are saying FUTURE (as to tense)
AORIST (as to aspect).
> Perfective aspect views an action
> as a whole, rather than complete,
If it is viewed as whole, then the beginning and end
have to be in view, which is exactly what I call
complete.
Strangely enough, nobody disagrees about Jude 14, 15
in this respect: 14 is future to the time of ACTUAL
writing, and 14 is past from the ACTUAL time of 15.
Even those who hold to Greek grammaticalizing tense
(and that Aorists refer to the past) agree that Jude
14 is future to the time of when the words were
ACTUALLY written. I'm still trying to see the critical
issue with this deictic center thing. As far as I see
it, how one views grammatical tense is FIRST
determined by how one understands where deictic
centers are located. And it seems to me that there is
leeway in where one decides to understand where the
deictic center is.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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