[B-Greek] Matt 3:17 - import of 1 per sing aorist EUDOKHSA
Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 30 08:35:29 EST 2007
--- Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> KAI IDOU FWNH EK TWN OURANWN LEGOUSA: hOUTOS ESTIN
> hO hUIOS MOU hO
> AGAPHTOS, EN hWi EUDOKHSA.
> >
>
> This is a Greek word that was popular in the LXX and
> Jewish religious
> contexts. However, Josephus, Philo, and Plutarch do
> not use the word.
>
> The aorist is easily explained as a carryover from
> Hebrew where
> ratsiti and Hafatsti (he`avar, typically past
> tenses) were used for
> present situations (like the Greek perfect
> PARAKEIMENOS). One could
> call these Semitisms or perfective aorists.
>
> A contributing factor in the choice of the aorist is
> the irregularity
> and rarity of the perfect form of this verb.
> would one say EYDEDOKHKA? EYDEDOGMAI? HUDOKHKA?
> The simple choice for the ancient author was to use
> a form in current
> use in their circles and this was the aorist.
The first element to check for is the temporalness of
the proposition. This can be done a number of ways,
but the easiest is: This is my son in whom I am
currently well pleased...in whom I shall be well
pleased..., etc. There is no temporal proposition
being uttered here. So don't try to figure out why the
Aorist is used in these kinds of propositions.
Non-temporal propositions do not inform us about the
temporal nature of the Aorist.
Failure to partition propositions into temporal and
non-temporal, forces irregularities on a language. The
Aorist tense is natural in this non-temporal
proposition; no need to resort to Semitism here. Also,
resorting to the perfective aorist is trying to
analyze a non-temporal statement in a temporal
statement's world.
It's almost comical to watch linguists deal with the
famous "the grass withers..." This aorist puzzles them
as if the statement should be understood "the grass withered..."
Eddie Mishoe
Pastor
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