[B-Greek] Mark1:11
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Wed Mar 11 01:15:19 EDT 2009
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From: "frank boumphrey" <koinebible at gmail.com>
To: "B-Greek" <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: 10. marts 2009 07:54
Subject: [B-Greek] Mark1:11
> SU EI hO hUIOS MOU hO AGAPHHTOS, EN SOI EUDOKHSA
> 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
It seems to me that you are thrown off by the somewhat misleading English rendering of EUDOKEW as
"be pleased with".
This word basically means "to consider something as being good". Think of it as "put a stamp of
approval" on something or someone. God is saying that he has put his stamp of approval on Jesus. If
you look at it this way, the aorist should be no surprise.
It some contexts, the word moves toward the concept of deciding, because when you consider something
to be good and right, then you make a decision accordingly. Only 3 out of 21 occurrences of this
verb in the NT are in the present tense, and there it indicates being in a continuous state of
approval (2 Cor 5:8, 12:10 and Heb 10:38). The only imperfect form is found in 1 Th 2:8.
Iver Larsen
Iver Larsen
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