[B-Greek] Hebrews 1:3-4 participles and verb aspect

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 6 13:38:23 EST 2007


On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Ken Penner wrote:

> This verb aspect person would put it this way:
> The event frames of the present participles overlap with the  
> beginning of the event frame of the main verb.
> The event frames of the aorist participles entirely precede the  
> event frame of the main verb.
>
> By event frame, I mean the time span over which the action/state of  
> the verb occurred/obtained.
>
> So at the time he sat, he was the radiance, he was carrying  
> everything.
> Before he sat, he had already worked out the purification, and had  
> already become better.
>
> Ken M. Penner, M.C.S. (Greek Verbal Aspect), Ph.D. (McMaster:  
> Hebrew Tense, Aspect and Modality).
> Acadia Divinity College

Thank you Ken,

A lucid statment.

Elizabeth Kline







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