[B-Greek] Aspect of KATALLASSWN in 2Cor 5,19
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Sep 26 15:34:05 EDT 2009
On Sep 26, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Peter Streitenberger wrote:
>
> Thank you, Mr. Conrad !
> Most of our German translations treat HN and KATALLASSWN seperatly,
> not as a
> unit in form of a periphrastic imperfect - just as the English NKJ
> does:
> "that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself". In case
> that
> makes sense as well, I wonder what the participle's aspect may be.
I think the aspect of the participle, since it's present tense, is
simply "imperfective."
I note that the verb appears only 6x in the GNT, 5x in the aorist, and
only this
once in the present tense.
CW Conrad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> To: "Peter Streitenberger" <ps2866 at bingo-ev.de>
> Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Aspect of KATALLASSWN in 2Cor 5,19
>
>
>>
>> On Sep 26, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Peter Streitenberger wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
>>> in 2Cor 5,19a we read: "hWS hOTI QEOS HN EN CRISTW KOSMON
>>> KATALLASSWN
>>> hEAUTW"
>>> I aks myself, what aspect the Present Participle KATALLASSWN
>>> expresses
>>> (maybe a gnomic idea) ?
>>
>> The present participle here construes with HN and is what's termed a
>> "periphrastic imperfect" formed with a present participle and an
>> imperfect of the verb EINAI. Thus HN KATALLASSWN is equivalent to
>> KATHLLASSEN, imperfect 3 sg. of KATALLASSW. There's nothing "gnomic"
>> about this.
>>
>>
>> Carl W. Conrad
>> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>>
>>
>>
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