[B-Greek] Luke 16.1 HN...EICEN
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Feb 13 05:07:22 EST 2008
On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>
> ELEGEN DE KAI PROS TOUS MAQHTAS ANQRWPOS TIS HN
> PLOUSIOS hOS EICEN OIKONOMON KAI hOUTOS DIEBLHQH AUTWi
> hWS DIASKORPIZWN TA hUPARCONTA AUTOU
>
> Still trying to understand tenses. (Thank you Dr.
> Conrad for your reply on the Perfect (able to function
> as Pluperfect. Is that information mentioned in
> standard Grammar books?)
>
> In this verse, I'm trying to understand the nuance of
> HN and EICEN. This man "he was being(?) rich" and "was
> having a steward..." Does the Imperfect here denote an
> ongoing role of managing his affairs while the Aorist
> would have simply stated a historical fact (not
> emphasizing his ongoing/daily duty)?
I think that the imperfects indicate the status of things obtaining
when the sequence of events heralded by the aorist DIEBLHQH began to
unfold.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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