[B-Greek] PEPOIHKEN in Heb. 11:28

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 4 13:34:35 EDT 2007


On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Webb wrote:

> Dear George,
>
>
>
> I'm comfortable with that part-about POIEW being used for celebrating
> rituals and holding banquets and the like. It's the weight of the  
> perfect
> tense that I'm trying to assess. Does it mean, essentially, that Moses
> "inaugurated" this feast?

I'm inclined to think that this is an instance of perfect that is  
essentially
identical in usage with an aorist. I don't think there's any  
suggestion of
establishment of the Passover -- in all probability it was a previously-
existing ritual given a fresh meaning in the context of the exodus
experience. NET gives "he kept the Passover" -- and I think that's  
right:
he "performed the rite."

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> From: George F Somsel [mailto:gfsomsel at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:50 AM
> To: Webb; B-Greek
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] PEPOIHKEN in Heb. 11:28
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> See BDAG s.v. POIEW 2f for comparable usages.
>
>
> george
> gfsomsel
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Webb <webb at selftest.net>
> To: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 4, 2007 12:43:27 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] PEPOIHKEN in Heb. 11:28
>
> PISTEI PEPOIHKEN [MWUSHS] TO PASCA KAI THN PROSCUSIN TOU hAIMATOS  
> (Heb.
> 11:28).
>
>
>
> Zerwick-Grosvenor says that PEPOIHKEN, as perfect, refers to  
> "inauguration
> of a rite still observed". This seems reasonable to me, but I also  
> find
> perfect forms tossed in as though they were aorists occasionally in  
> the GNT.
> Is Zerwick-Grosvenor over-interpreting the perfect here?
>
>
>
> Webb Mealy
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Carl W. Conrad
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