[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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