[B-Greek] John 9.25c WN ARTI

Webb webb at selftest.net
Mon May 7 20:43:37 EDT 2007


Others with more expertise in Greek will have other comments, but I have
this to contribute:
"I know one thing: I'm a blind man, but now I [can] see!" 

The TUFLOS WN states the man's lifelong identity more than talking about a
condition conceived of as in the past.

Webb Mealy

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Subject: [B-Greek] John 9.25c WN ARTI

John 9.25c

hEN OIDA, hOTI TUFLOS WN ARTI BLEPW

Why the Present WN next to the Adverb ARTI? (...being,
I now...) Did Greek have a Secondary Tense EIMI
participle? (I partly understand that Participles do
not grammaticalize time, but this still seems like a
strange usage.)

Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas

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