[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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