[B-Greek] Luke 1:34 EPEI ANDRA OU GINWSKW;

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Wed Aug 27 08:57:04 EDT 2008


Luke 1:34 εἶπεν δὲ Μαριὰμ πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον,
Πῶς ἔσται τοῦτο,
ἐπεὶ ἄνδρα οὐ γινώσκω;

Luke 1:34 EIPEN DE MARIAM PROS TON AGGELON,
PWS ESTAI TOUTO,
EPEI ANDRA OU GINWSKW;

When I read this yesterday, I read γινώσκω (GINWSKW) as present tense
with imperfective force - "seeing as how I'm not sleeping with a man".
Translations don't seem to go that way, and the commentaries I've looked
at so far don't even entertain this as a possibility.

Why not - is it wrong to read it this way?

Jonathan




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