[B-Greek] Matt 3:17 - import of 1 per sing aorist EUDOKHSA

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 30 10:10:13 EST 2007


Carl:

I agree with your statements. But, your "completed"
concept deals with Event time, not reference time. The
intent of the statement is not to say I loved my son
in the past in a complete way. Rather, the love of the
father for the son lacks nothing. It makes no
statement about WHEN this love is/was/will be
expressed. Some call this a Gnomic Aorist, but
Gnomicity is an element of the proposition, not the
tense, hence we have the mislabeled 'Gnomic' Presents
as well.

I think a major mistake Porter makes in his analysis
is his failure to first identify the temporal nature
of a proposition before he makes statements regarding
the temporal nature of the verbal network. To him, the
statement about "the grass withers" need to count for
Aorists that are non-past referring. The is partly why
Olsen says Porter's analysis is an oversimplified
model. The normal/natural non-temporal statements are
not excluded in Porter's model, rather he ascribed the
temporal nature first to tense forms and concluded, of
course, that many Aorists are non-past
referring...something we knew all along.

Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


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