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

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 5 17:24:21 EDT 2007


On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Webb wrote:

> and the fact
> that the perfects in Hebrews uniformly carry their full force...

I think this is a little overstated. Wescott said something similar,  
but only gave less than half of the perfects in Hebrews as citations.

Moulton (Proleg. pps.142-144) discusses the interplay of semantics  
between the aorist and perfect in the NT period. He claims that  
isolated examples of perfects apparently functioning semantically as  
aorists can be found earlier than the NT but the general drift was  
for the aorist to take over the semantic territory of the perfect  
which he dates centuries after the NT was written.

Furthermore Moulton under "Aoristic Perfect in the NT?" lists Hebrews  
7:13. 9:18, 11:17, and 11:28 as examples cited by others to  
illustrate the "Aoristic Perfect". He disagrees: "Nor will it do to  
cite the perfects in Heb 11:17 al where the use of this tense to  
describe what 'stands written' in Scripture is a marked feature of  
the author's style."


Elizabeth Kline







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