[B-Greek] Mark1:11
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 10 21:11:18 EDT 2009
The aorist can be understood as a semitism representing the
Hebrew perfect. or a gnomic aorist, or what Zerwick would
call a present aorist or a perfect aorist. Remember that the
aorist, though, is the default aspect, sometimes even in the
indicative, and it's really the progressive that would need
to be explained.
Mark L
--- On Mon, 3/9/09, frank boumphrey <koinebible at gmail.com> wrote:
From: frank boumphrey <koinebible at gmail.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] Mark1:11
To: "B-Greek" <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 10:54 PM
SU EI hO U'IOS MOU 'O AGAPHETOS,EN SOI EUDOKEHSA
σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν σοὶ
εὐδόκησα.
you are the son of me the beloved in whom I am well pleased.
Funy how you can read something several times and suddenly be aware of a
problem.
My question is why should EUDOKEHSA (εὐδόκησα) be the aorist tense
which to
me implies a one off or punctiliar action rather than an ongoing action. Is
this implying that you are now about to be tested, and I may not be so well
pleased after? That does not seem right to me, so obviously I am missing
something.
TIA
Frank
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