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

Scott Kennedy dustiescott222755 at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 9 15:41:29 EST 2009


This is a fun question of aspect whether complete or incomplete. In this case, the imperfect hinges on the hEWS hOU, which provides the clause that tells us when Joseph could finally say EGNWN AUTHN, that is after Jesus's birth. Before that as Harold has said, it was a habitual action that he did not know her in that way. Think of how many times a husband may have wanted to get to 'know' fully his wife from the time they were married until Jesus's birth, but he couldn't;)
 
Scott Kennedy
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:43:37 -0600> From: hholmyard3 at earthlink.net> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] EGINWSKEN (Matthew 1:25)> > Andrew,> > "KAI OUK EGINWSKEN AUTHN hEWS hOU ETEKEN hUION..." (Matthew 1:25).> >> > 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?> >> >> > > > To me it suggests an ongoing activity. Here that might imply some > self-control.> > Yours,> Harold Holmyard> > ---> B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek> B-Greek mailing list> B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek
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