[B-Greek] Rev 20:3
Alexander Ring
akring at mac.com
Wed Mar 18 15:24:33 EDT 2009
Yes, that's better. Thanks.
On Mar 18, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Carl Conrad wrote:
>
> 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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>
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