[B-Greek] Acts 16:22--force of the imperfect EKELEUON?
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Wed Nov 7 13:54:54 EST 2007
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From: "Webb Mealy" <webb at selftest.net>
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Acts 16:22--force of the imperfect EKELEUON?
>
> An idea I had this morning was that the imperfect could be there because the
> implication is that the magistrates supervised the beating throughout,
> determining when enough blows had been struck on each person. Then the
> imperfect would convey the extension in time of the ordering. The
> alternative to this and my first suggestion could be that selected by NASB:
> "the magistrates...proceeded to order them to be beaten". Not very elegant,
> but it does pop out of the aoristic mode into the sense of an ongoing
> process.
>
>> > KAI hOI STRATHGOI PERIRHXANTES AUTWN TA hIMATIA EKELEUON hRABDIZEIN
>> >
I would agree with you that the imperfect seems to indicate an extended or iterative rather than
ingressive sense. The "ordering" may imply more than one command. They were in the process of giving
several commands.
Another idea to add to yours is that the first event - PERIRHGNUMI - was also ordered by the
magistrates. This is reflected by the NIV, since they move the word "order" to appear before the
stripping: "and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten."
Iver Larsen
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