[B-Greek] John 9.25c WN ARTI

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Mon May 7 23:21:13 EDT 2007


hEN OIDA, hOTI TUFLOS WN ARTI BLEPW

--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:

> More simply, the present participle can take the
> place of an  
> imperfect as well as a present indicative. This is:
> 
> "That (though) I was blind, I now see."
> 

What is going on within the language that allows this
substitution from a Present Participle WN to an
Imperfect finite HMHN? And is it common?

Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas

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