[B-Greek] Matt 5:23

jayadkins26 at bellsouth.net jayadkins26 at bellsouth.net
Sat Aug 11 09:25:44 EDT 2007


Matt 5:23 ἐὰν οὖν προςφέρῃς τὸ δῶρόν σου ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαςτήριον κἀκεῑ μνασθῇς ὅτι ὁ ἀδελφός σου ἔχει τι κατὰ σοῦ
Matt 5:23  hEAN hOUN PROSFERHS TO DWRON SOU EPI TO QUSIASTHRION KAKEI MNASQHS hOTI hO ADELFOS SOU ECEI TI KATA SOU
Matt 5:23 (NASU) "Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 

Please help me to identify this conditional statement.  Would you call it a hypothetical third class conditional statement.  Wallace says “The third class condition encompasses a broad range of potentialities in Koine Greek.  It depicts what is likely to occur in the future, what could possibly occur, or even what is only hypothetical and will not occur.” [page 470] Since this is a possibility, it is his statement that it “will not occur” that has me confused.  Thank you in advance.

Jay Adkins




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