[B-Greek] Acts 16:22--force of the imperfect EKELEUON?
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 6 23:51:49 EST 2007
I'd be interested in seeing what others have to say about that because it seems to me that you are almost arguing for an ingressive infinite when you say "commence beating..." And I don't think that would be correct. I can understand an ingressive imperfect meaning 'began ordering' because one can take the aorist participle PERIRHXANTES as being antecedent to the imperfect EKELEUON.
Reading it as "after the commander stripped their clothes, he began ordering them to be beaten with rods."
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Kelton Graham
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From: "Webb Mealy" <webb at selftest.net>
> KAI hOI STRATHGOI PERIRHXANTES AUTWN TA hIMATIA EKELEUON hRABDIZEIN
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> This appears to say,
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> And the magistrates, having stripped off their clothes, began giving the
> order to beat them with rods.
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> Somehow I suspect that this is not what it's about. I wonder if the
> imperfect form EKELEUON might be there to lend an ingressive flavor-and not
> to the action of ordering itself, but to the activity being ordered, thus:
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> And the magistrates, after having the men's clothes stripped off, gave the
> order to commence beating them with rods.
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> Is that possible? If not, what is the force of the imperfect?
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> Webb Mealy
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> (returning to translating after a two-month hiatus)
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