[B-Greek] Rev 20:3

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Mar 18 15:23:32 EDT 2009


On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Alexander Ring wrote:

> My question regards the phrase:
>
> ARCI TELESQHi TA CILIA ETH.
>
> With TELESQHi being aorist subjunctive, might this be translated
> "until the thousand years were about to end"? I'm not keen on
> translations like "until the thousand years were ended" because it
> sounds more like a perfect than an aorist.
>
> Alex

That should be ACRI.  With the aorist subjunctive, the clause  
envisions a point that is in the future wth respect to the sealing:  
"until such time as the thousand years should come to an end."

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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