[B-Greek] Imperfect and Aorist, for Bert

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 19 18:03:36 EDT 2006


Rolf:

> Are you saying that aorist in all cases signals
> *completed* action or state?

Do you mean despite lexical aspect and other
grammatical intrusion? Far more is at work than simply
grammatical aspect. 

A Greek can describe a waterfall with the Aorist, by
which he simply would mean consider the waterfall at
any given moment, and of course in relation to a
deictic center.





Eddie Mishoe
Pastor

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