[B-Greek] Matt 5:23

Daniel Nordlund res90sx5 at verizon.net
Sat Aug 11 11:11:02 EDT 2007



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> 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
> 
Jay, 

I believe you are misreading what Wallace wrote.  First, the quote:

"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."

It is three separate clauses.
1.  what is likely to occur in the future
2.  what could possibly occur
3.  what is only hypothetical and will not occur

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell




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