[B-Greek] How to avoid an Imperfective aspect in the Present Tense

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 25 23:09:12 EDT 2007


Dr. Porter has a section on Aorist for timeless
action, and includes these two examples:

Mk 1.11
SU EI hO hUIOS MOU hO AGAPHTOS, EN SOI EUDOKHSA

Lk 7.35
EDIKAIWQH hH SOFIA APO PANTWN TWN TEKNWN AUTHS


After reading these, it occurred to me that a Present
Tense may not have been aspectual appropriate for the
point the writer is making. He did not want to
communicate an Imperfective aspect in the statement.

How would a Greek make a statement, referencing the
present/current time, but wanting to do so without the
accompanying Imperfective Aspect that a Present Tense
would bring? It seems to me that the Aorist in these
two examples was somewhat needed due to the desired
Perfective aspect. (In the archives, some argue that
such statements as these are not of a temporal nature.)

Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas

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