[B-Greek] EGINWSKEN (Matthew 1:25)

Harold Holmyard hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 9 13:43:37 EST 2009


Andrew,
> "KAI OUK EGINWSKEN AUTHN hEWS hOU ETEKEN hUION..." (Matthew 1:25).
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> I know that it's a mistake to force tense-differences, but is the use of the imperfect tense here ("EGINWSKEN") significant, especially in a context in which the aorist tense predominates?
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To me it suggests an ongoing activity. Here that might imply some 
self-control.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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