[B-Greek] Mark 14:12 Imperfect... progressive or customary?

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Mar 29 13:10:40 EDT 2009


On Mar 29, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Roe wrote:

> Dear BGreeks,
>
> In Mark 14:12 (KAI TH PRWTH hHMERA TWN AZUMWN, hOTE TO PASCA  
> EQUON...),
> how certain can we be that EQUON was meant either as a normal
> progressive imperfect ("when the Passover lamb was being  
> sacrificed") or
> as a customary, or iterative, imperfect ("when it was customary to
> sacrifice the Passover lamb").

I would think the sense of customary practice is the only appropriate
sense here, "when they would sacrifice ... "

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






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