[B-Greek] Matt 14.29 Aorist HLQEN + PROS

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 00:52:23 EDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> yes, Mitch. the aoristos would imply that Peter arrived.
> PROS is the correct preposition in this case.
>
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> So, yes, the aorist in Matt 14:29 has Peter arrive.
> But you will find other aorists where the person has
> not arrived, quasi-imperfectives, one kind of what I would
> call Semitic aorists. So you may stand your ground, as
> long as you keep your eyes open.
>
> ERRWSO
> Randall Buth
>

However, with a mss variant ἐλθεῖν (ELQOEIN) (inf. aor act) in place of καὶ
ἦλθεν (KAI HLQEN), I am not sure whether it would us whether Peter arrived,
unless I force to read 'Peter walked over the water to have come to Jesus'.

Oun Kwon.


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