[B-Greek] Mark1:11

Will Dilbeck will.dilbeck at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 23:34:23 EDT 2009


Remember also that the aorist simply means "undefined" thus meaning that it
can sometimes be used simply to state that something has occured without
giving any notion as to whether the action is punctiliar, durative or
perfective. A good example of this idea is seen in John 2:20 in which the
Jews tell Jesus that it took forty-six years to build this temple.
OIKODOMHQH (built) might be expected to be a perfect tense or the imperative
or maybe even the present tense (since the temple was still being built).
But instead, we have the aorist which simply asserts the idea of it was
built. Therefore, here in Mark 1:11, we have the simple fact of God being
well-pleased concerning Jesus.

2009/3/9 frank boumphrey <koinebible at gmail.com>

> 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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