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

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Fri Nov 30 19:45:51 EST 2007


That's what I thought.

Father James

----- Original Message -----
From: Elizabeth Kline 
Date: Friday, November 30, 2007 6:04 pm
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Matt 3:17 - import of 1 per sing aorist EUDOKHSA
To: B-Greek 

> 
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> 
> > The verb aspect terminology that seems to be generally in use 
> among 
> > NT linguists these days (R.A. Young 1994:106, McKay 1972:44, 
> Porter 
> > 1989:208-209) breaks down the asepctual system into:
> >
> > perfective - aorist
> > imperfective - present, imperfect
> > stative - perfect, pluperfect
> >
> > When R.Buth says "One could call these Semitisms or perfective 
> 
> > aorists." I suspect that he is not using aspect terminology as 
> it 
> > is defined above. What he seems to be saying is that the greek 
> 
> > aorist is functioning like a semitic perfect, contra Porter 
> (Idioms 
> > 2nd ed. 1994:39, 1989:126-129) in regard to EUDOKHSA in Mk 1:11.
> 
> But note what C.Spicq has to say in regard to this use of EUDOKHSA
> 
> C.Spicq 2:102 n22 "The aorist here would correspond to a 
> semitic 
> stative perfect, equivalent to a present; it expresses the 
> persistence of a feeling that abides ..."
> 
> 
> 
> Elizabeth Kline
> 
> 
> 
> 
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